ManageEngine rolls out Office 365 license management and reporting

ManageEngine has announced the addition of an Office 365 bulk license manager to its Active Directory management software, ADManager Plus, and an Exchange Online reporting module to its Microsoft Exchange server reporting solution, ExchangeReporter Plus. While the new feature in ADManager Plus allows administrators to manage Office 365 licenses of multiple users at once, the new ExchangeReporter Plus provides administrators a better understanding of how Office 365 resources are being utilised, the company said. [caption id=“attachment_384429” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Reuters[/caption] “After we added Office 365 provisioning and reporting capabilities to ADManager Plus, our customers started asking for a bulk license management utility that would offer some flexibility in managing Office 365 licenses,” said Manikandan Thangaraj, director, product management, ManageEngine.  “So we not only  added that utility in ADManager Plus, we also upgraded ExchangeReporter Plus to report on Office 365 mailboxes. This way, administrators need not struggle with PowerShell to get mailbox statistics that ease license management.” The Office 365 bulk license manager in ADManager Plus makes managing Office 365 user licenses more flexible and easy. The user interface lists all the Office 365 accounts, making it easy for administrators to select and modify the licenses of several accounts at a time. Depending on their needs, administrators can choose to add, replace, or revoke licenses completely or selectively. Administrators can import a user list from a CSV file to manage the licenses of a specific group.  This provision helps when administrators need to change subscription plans for a department or revoke licenses of inactive users. The customised, selective licensing feature enables administrators to revisit assigned licenses and enable/disable services based on user requirements. The new ADManager Plus module also enables administrators to delegate Office 365 license management and reporting to help desk technicians for a certain location or OU. The new  Office 365 reporting module in ExchangeReporter Plus offers information such as inactive mailboxes and top 10 mailboxes by size, which are not easily available on Office 365 management portal and can only be obtained by using elaborate PowerShell scripting.