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Peer-to-peer activity report

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The Reports dashboard shows you the activity overview across the Microsoft 365 or Office 365 products in your organization. It enables you to drill in to individual product level reports to give you more granular insight about the activities within each product. For example, you can use the Skype for Business peer-to-peer activity report to see how much your users are using IM, audio, video, application sharing, and transferring files.

Note

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Check out the Reports overview.

This report, along with the other Skype for Business reports, gives you details on activity across your organization. These details are very helpful when you investigating, planning, and making other business decisions for your organization.

Note

You can see all of the Skype for Business reports when you log on as an administrator to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

How to get to the Skype for Business peer-to-peer activity report

  1. Go to the admin center > Reports > Usage.

  2. On the Usage page, select Skype for Business > Peer-to-peer activity on the Select a report list on the left. Or, click the Skype for Business activity widget and then click Skype for Business peer-to-peer activity on the Skype for Business activity list.

Interpret the Skype for Business peer-to-peer activity report

You can get a view into your Skype for Business peer-to-peer activity by looking at Activity, Users, and Minutes charts.

Skype peer to peer report with callouts.


Number 1.
The Skype for Business peer-to-peer activity report can be viewed for trends over the last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, or 180 days. However, if you click into a particular day in the report, the table (see number 7) will show data for 30 days, up to the date (see number 2) for when the report was generated.

Note

If you click into the details of a specific day, the table will only show data for the 30 days up to the date when the report was generated.


Number 2.
Each report has a date for when this report was generated. The reports usually reflect a 24- to 48-hour latency from time of activity.


Number 3.
Use the interactive chart data on the Activity chart to understand usage trends and to see the total number of sessions per session type being held in your organization. It will show you the total number and types of IM, Audio, Video, Application sharing, and File transfers sessions across your organization.


Number 4.
Use the interactive chart data on the Users chart to understand usage trends and to see the number of unique users that are participating in peer-to-peer activities that are being held in your organization. It will show you the total number of users along with the types of IM, Audio, Video, Application sharing, and File transfers in peer-to-peer sessions.


Number 5.
Use the interactive chart data on the Minutes chart to understand usage trends and to see the number of minutes that are used by users doing peer-to-peer activities using audio and video. It will show you the total number of minutes of Audio and Video that is used in peer-to-peer sessions.


Number 6.
Each chart has an 'X' (horizontal) and 'Y' (vertical) axis.

  • On the Activity activity chart, the Y axis is the total number of IM, audio, video, application sharing and transferring files sessions that your users held in your organization.
  • On the Users activity chart, the Y axis is the total number users that held IM, audio, video, application sharing, and transferring files sessions.
  • On the Minutes activity chart, the Y axis is the total number of minutes that users across your organization spent using audio and video peer-to-peer sessions.

The X axis on both charts is the selected date range for this specific report.


Number 7.
You can filter the series you see on the chart by clicking on an item in the legend. For example, on the Activity chart, click or tap IM, Audio, Video, Application sharing, and File transfers to see only the info related to each one. Changing this selection doesn't change the info in the grid table.


Number 8.
The table shows you a breakdown of the peer-to-peer activities per user. This shows all users that have Skype for Business assigned to them and their peer-to-peer activities. You can add additional columns to the table.

  • User name is the name of the user.
  • Deleted indicates that the user's license was removed.

    Note: Activity for a deleted user will still display in a report as long as he or she was licensed at some time during the selected time period. The Deleted column helps you to note that the user may no longer be active, but contributed to the data in the report.

  • Deleted date is the date on which the user's license was removed.
  • Last activity date (UTC) is the last activity date (UTC) for that user.
  • IM shows the total number of peer-to-peer sessions that the user used.
  • Audio shows the total number of peer-to-peer sessions that used audio.
  • Video shows the total number of peer-to-peer sessions that used video.
  • Application sharing shows the total number of peer-to peer application sharing sessions.
  • File transfers shows the total number of peer-to peer file transfer sessions.
  • Audio minutes shows the total number of audio minutes that were used across your organization.
  • Video minutes shows the total number of video minutes that were used across your organization.

If your organization's policies prevents you from viewing reports where user information is identifiable, you can change the privacy setting for all these reports. Check out the How do I hide user level details? section in the Activity Reports in the admin center.


Number 9.
You can also export the report data into an Excel .csv file, by clicking or tapping Export.
Skype for Business Reporting Export Button.
This exports data of all users and enables you to do simple sorting and filtering for further analysis. If you have less than 2000 users, you can sort and filter within the table in the report itself. If you have more than 2000 users, in order to filter and sort, you will need to export the data.


Number 10.
Skype for Business Online Reporting Manage Button.
Click or tap the Columns icon in any of the columns to add or remove columns from the report.

Want to see other Skype for Business reports?

Activity Reports in the admin center