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Activeboard: Office 365 Active Directory

Owned by Borja Moro Moreno
Last updated: Jul 17, 2023
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[ 1 Purpose ] [ 2 Prerequisites ] [ 3 Open Activeboard ] [ 4 Use Activeboard ]

Purpose

Active Directory (AD) is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. Windows Server operating systems include it as a set of processes and services.

A domain controller is a server running the Active Directory Domain Service (AD DS) role. It authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain-type network, assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software. For example, when a user logs into a computer part of a Windows domain.

Active Directory checks the submitted username and password and determines whether the user is a system administrator or a non-admin user. Furthermore, it allows the management and storage of information, provides authentication and authorization mechanisms, and establishes a framework to deploy other related services: Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Lightweight Directory Services, and Rights Management Services.

This Activeboard monitors the activity of the Office 365 Active Directory, gleaning notions of the key indicators related to users and logins.

Filters

Select user: Select input

Select operation: Select input

 

Data

User logins: Line chart widget

Logins location: Markers map widget

Distribution of operations: Pie chart widget

Login failures: Table widget

Login failure reasons: Pie chart widget

Users added to groups: Line chart widget

Users modified: Table widget

 

 

Prerequisites

To use this Activeboard, you must have the following data sources available in your domain:

Open Activeboard

Once you have installed the Activeboard, you can use the Open button at the top right of the card in Exchange to access it and see the different widgets populated with the relevant data. You can also access the Activeboard area via the Navigation pane.

Data loading takes too long?

Sometimes some widgets take time to upload the data, it is possible to speed up the process by creating aggregation tasks. Refer to the Aggregation tasks article to learn how to do it.

Use Activeboard

After installing and opening the Activeboard, you can use its widgets to visualize and monitor data. To do this, each widget offers a variety of customization and visualization options. Refer to Using widgets and Using inputs to know them all.