M365 reporting that answers the regulator's question.
Audit-log analysis, compliance reporting, usage analytics, custom dashboards, and regulator-evidence packaging. We build M365 reporting workflows for 40+ businesses with audit-ready documentation.
- 40+Reporting tenants
- AuditReady evidence
- CustomPer-regulator
- 24/7Coverage
Six reporting and auditing disciplines.
Audit-log activation
Unified Audit Log enabled, retention extended, audit-log streaming to SIEM where appropriate. Mailbox auditing per-user activated.
Custom reporting
Custom dashboards in Power BI for adoption metrics, security posture, compliance scoring. Refresh schedules tuned to stakeholder cadence.
Regulator evidence packages
Pre-packaged evidence sets for ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX, NYDFS Part 500, GDPR. Documented control mappings and audit-trail extracts ready for review.
Compliance scoring
Microsoft Compliance Manager configured, framework templates activated, scoring tracked over time, gap remediation prioritised.
Usage analytics
M365 adoption tracking, application-by-application usage, low-adoption-team flags, Copilot usage analytics, ROI-tracking dashboards.
Insider risk reporting
Insider risk dashboards, departing-employee reports, sensitive-data movement reports, anomaly trends. Surfaces what compliance leaders need to know.
Reporting, auditing, and health monitoring under one platform.
Reporting
Detailed reports across every M365 service: Exchange, Entra ID, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint. Custom Power BI dashboards stakeholders can read without IT translation.
- Exchange Online: mailbox sizing, mail flow, OWA activity, public folders
- Entra ID: user/group visibility, licence assignments, sign-in logs
- OneDrive: file access, modification history, sharing, sync
- Teams: channel events, logon activity, meeting participation
- SharePoint: site analytics, document usage, permissions, search
- Usage analytics, licence utilisation, cost optimisation
Auditing
Complete audit trail across admin and user activity, with retention extended past defaults and evidence-package automation for ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX, NYDFS Part 500 reviews.
- Admin activity monitoring across all services
- User behaviour analytics and tracking
- Permission, role, and licence change history
- File operations: create, modify, delete, share
- Mailbox access, delegation, and impersonation logs
- Compliance report generation and export
Health Monitoring
24/7 monitoring of M365 services and endpoints with real-time alerts and historical data. Detect outages and anomalies before users open tickets, in some cases before Microsoft posts to the service-health dashboard.
- Service-health monitoring across Exchange, Entra, Teams, SharePoint
- Endpoint availability and performance tracking
- Real-time email alerts on outages and incidents
- Granular incident details with affected-user counts
- Historical data older than the 30-day Microsoft default
- Graphical illustrations of health and performance trends
Four reasons clients pick us for the workflows.
40+ reporting tenants
Pattern recognition matters. We have built reports for NYDFS Part 500, SOX, ISO, and NIST CSF reviews. We know which questions auditors ask.
Power BI fluency
Custom dashboards designed in Power BI, refresh-aware, role-based access. Same team that builds dashboards for service-line clients also builds compliance reporting.
Framework expertise
Engineers with ISO 27001 LA, CIPP, and CISM credentials. Reports designed against framework controls, not generic templates.
US-based engineers
Senior compliance and BI engineers based in the United States. Understand the local regulator landscape and the reports that satisfy review.
Three workstreams of M365 management features.
Exchange Online Management
Bulk mailbox operations, SMTP address modification, and mailbox-feature configuration without PowerShell scripts. Audited, repeatable, delegatable to help desk.
- Enable / disable mailboxes in bulk via CSV
- Modify primary SMTP and proxy addresses
- Set IMAP, POP, MAPI, OWA, EWS access per user
- Single or group mailbox configuration
- Mail-flow validation and routing checks
Entra ID Management
Block / unblock users individually or in bulk, delete or restore Entra ID accounts within the 30-day soft-delete window, manage groups and licence assignments at scale.
- Block / unblock users individually or in bulk
- Delete or restore user accounts (preserve data)
- Bulk operations via CSV import
- Group and security-group lifecycle management
- Licence assignment and reclamation workflows
Office 365 Automation
Event-driven automation policies that chain tasks together when triggers fire. Scheduled task execution for routine ops; admin-activity audit on every automated action.
- Scheduled task execution without manual touch
- Event-driven workflows with multi-step chains
- Time-based and conditional automation logic
- User-provisioning and mailbox-management workflows
- Detailed audit trail of every automated action
Reporting workflows by sector.
Financial services
SEC- and NYDFS-regulated firms with regulator-required quarterly reporting, audit-trail extracts, control-evidence packages.
Healthcare
Hospitals and clinics with HIPAA-compliant reporting, PHI access auditing, retention-evidence packaging.
Professional services
Law firms and consultancies with matter-based access reports, ethical-wall evidence, client-data handling reports.
Tech and SaaS
SaaS companies with SOC 2 Type 2 reporting workflows, audit-evidence automation, customer-trust dashboards.
Retail and operations
Retail groups with PCI DSS evidence, multi-store usage analytics, executive operational dashboards.
Education
Schools and universities with FERPA reporting, student-data audit, parent-portal access reports.
Who actually needs engineered M365 reporting.
IT administrators
Simplify complex M365 management with centralised control, bulk operations, and delegation.
Compliance officers
Generate compliance reports and maintain audit trails for ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX, NYDFS Part 500, GDPR.
Security teams
Monitor security events, track suspicious activity, respond to threats with full audit history.
Enterprise organisations
Manage large-scale M365 deployments with advanced reporting, automation, and cross-tenant aggregation.
Why dedicated reporting beats clicking through admin centre.
| Feature | M365 admin reports Built-in | Engineered reporting Custom, refreshed |
|---|---|---|
Custom date ranges | Limited | Any range |
Cross-tenant aggregation | ||
Automated refresh | ||
Regulator-specific framing | ||
Historical trend analysis | 90 days | Multi-year |
Stakeholder-tailored views | ||
Audit evidence chain | Manual export | Automated package |
Six numbers our reporting workflows deliver.
Across Exchange, Entra ID, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive activity with full audit trail extension.
Coverage of admin and user activity for security-incident investigation and audit evidence.
Frameworks tracked end-to-end against ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX, NYDFS Part 500, GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA controls.
Reduction in compliance-evidence assembly time vs manual admin-centre exports and spreadsheets.
Licence-utilisation analytics surface unused or duplicated licences for reclamation.
Service-health, endpoint, and tenant-health alerts before users open the helpdesk ticket.
Delegate admin rights without giving away the keys to the tenant.
Most M365 tenants either have ten Global Admins or two; neither is right. Help-desk delegation lets you assign granular roles (password resets, account unlocks, mailbox feature toggles) to trusted technicians, scoped by tenant or domain, with full audit trails on every action they take.
- Cross-tenant delegation for organisations with multiple M365 tenants
- Domain-based delegation for multi-domain tenants
- Technician audit log: every Active Directory object created, modified, deleted
- Security delegation for password resets, account unlocks, user blocking
- Non-admin delegation for trusted users to handle low-risk tasks
- Customised roles combining management, reporting, auditing, alerting
Eight features your IT team can act on, not just read.
Operations
- Bulk operationsCSV-driven user, mailbox, and licence management without PowerShell scripts.
- User managementBlock, unblock, delete, restore Entra ID accounts individually or in bulk.
- Automation policiesEvent-driven and scheduled workflows that chain tasks together.
- Role-based accessGranular delegation by tenant, domain, or service with full audit log.
Insights
- Alert managementCustom alert rules across services, with escalation and routing per stakeholder.
- Capacity planningMailbox, OneDrive, and SharePoint sizing trends to forecast storage growth.
- Compliance reportingPre-packaged evidence sets per framework (ISO, NIST CSF, SOX, GDPR).
- Data exportScheduled exports to CSV, Excel, Power BI, or SIEM for downstream analytics.
From stakeholder workshop to managed reporting.
- 1
Discovery
2 weeks
Stakeholder workshops, regulator-mapping audit, current reporting state. Output: dashboard inventory and evidence-package design.
- 2
Build
4-6 weeks
Audit-log activation, dashboards designed and built in Power BI, evidence-package automation, Compliance Manager configured.
- 3
Validate
1 week
Reports validated against historical data, stakeholder UAT, refinements applied, refresh schedules tested.
- 4
Operate
Continuous
Quarterly framework reviews, ongoing dashboard tuning, regulator-driven evidence updates, audit-evidence kept current.
“Our SOX review asked for evidence of mailbox-access auditing across the past two years. We had unified audit log enabled but never built proper reporting. GR IT spent four weeks building a custom Power BI dashboard with retention extracts, and we had the evidence ready the next morning. The auditor specifically commented on the quality of our documentation.”
M365 Reporting & Auditing, frequently asked.
Resources for compliance and reporting leads.
Microsoft Purview
Data-protection platform that generates the audit data we report against. Sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, audit logging.
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Microsoft Compliance Manager scoring platform. Often deployed alongside engineered reporting for framework tracking.
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SIEM platform for clients needing real-time threat detection alongside compliance reporting. Audit logs stream to Sentinel for unified analytics.
Learn moreTalk to a reporting specialist.
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