Overlapping licenses
The overlapping licenses report gives you an overview of users that have licenses with license types that have overlapping functionalities. You can drill down on the different license types as well as the individual users and which licenses they have assigned. All tables in this report is interactive and if you filter/click on one object the other tables will respond to this
Subscribe to this report at your preferred frequency to be reminded if you have users with overlapping licenses. This table should be blank
Filter options
User Purpose: Filter on the type of Exchange Online mailbox connected to the user.
User - A user account with a mailbox.
Guest - The user purpose for guest users is set to Guest.
Shared - A shared mailbox user.
Room - A user with a mailbox that represents a conference room.
Equipment - A user with a mailbox that represents a piece of equipment.
Others - A mailbox was found but the user purpose is not specified.
Unknown - User has no Exchange Online mailbox, or we were not able to read it.
Created date: Helps you filter on when users were created
Last sign-in: Helps you filter on showing all users from when they were last created. In this overview you can i.e exclude users created last two weeks
User state: Choose if you want to see overview of active or inactive users or both
Sign-in status: Helps you filter on users who have never signed in and users that have
Account: Filter for showing Disabled or Enabled users - or both.
User Source: Filter on Cloud users and users synced from on-premises
User Principal Name: Free text search for a user name. Report will update accordingly.
Focus table - licenses
This table gives you an overview of the license combinations that have overlapping licenses. The license on the left side is the most comprehensive license package, while the license on the right side is the overlapping license that can be removed.
If this table is blank you don't have any users with overlapping licenses. If not, you have someone you need to look into
Breakdown table - additional filter available for different user properties
This table shows the distribution of cost for the chosen property
Breakdown filter: Choose the appropriate property you want to by using the breakdown filter on the right side. We have also included Extension attributes as this is often used by companies
User details table
In this table you can drill down on the specific users that have licenses allocated to them and investigate whether they should be removed or not.
The column selector on the right hand side gives you the opportunity to choose which information is the most interesting to see. Some of the most interesting properties to see based on our experience is:
Created
Last sign-in
Days since last sign-in
Cost
Licenses combined
This table can be exported with live integration to Excel and be used as a worklist across different functions to clean up. The spreadsheet will be automatically updated every night
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