In organizations moving towards Microsoft 365, managing users, security monitoring and ensuring compliance became the biggest challenge for them. Admins rely on analytical and reporting tools to fill the gaps left by Microsoft’s native dashboards. Another powerful alternative gaining attention is AdminDroid while 365 Tune is for optimization.

AdminDroid is considered as the strongest add-on tool for 365 Tune.

AdminDroid:

A specialized Microsoft 365 reporting and analytics platform which provides,

• Comprehensive reports, 
• Dashboards,
• Alerts,
• Usage insights,
• Compliance monitoring.

It is mainly designed for administrators, deep visibility and security analysis and areas where default Microsoft tools are often limited.

365 Tune mainly focuses on performance tuning, optimization of Exchange, OneDrive, Teams, Log analysis and basic reports.

Whereas,

AdminDroid provides more detailed and a wider reporting capability, which makes it a better alternative for users who need Deep auditing, Compliance reports, Governance dashboards, role based monitoring, Automated alerts and scheduled reporting and MSP multi tenant management. All these things make it a better one to use and work.

ADMINDROID FEATURES:

AdminDroid provides extensive Microsoft 365 reports around 1800 and plus reports.

One of the strongest features that covers,

• Azure AD,
• Exchange Online,
• SharePoint Online,
• Teams,
• OneDrive,
• Security and compliance,
• Intune

Using these reports admins can understand usage patterns, security risks and operational status and so on.

AI – POWERED ANALYTICS:

AdminDroid integrates smart Ai – driven suggestions for various analytics like,

User behavior anomalies

Unusual login patterns

Suspicious activities

License optimization

All these help admins take faster decisions with predictive insights that are driven using the analysis that was made.

REAL – TIME ALERTS AND AUTOMATION:

AdminDroid provides custom alerting for login fails, data sharing violations, external user activity, mailbox rule changes and file deletions.

Alerts can be sent through email, webhook or integrated systems that help to detect threats early.

With alert and automation, we can get alerts when suspicious logins happen, inactive or disabled accounts, Unusual mailbox access, Licence expirations and external sharing events and so on. It also supports Scheduled mailbox access, automated summary of emails, compliance based alerting with high customization.

DASHBOARD VISUALIZATIONS:

360 degree visual insights can be obtained based on User activities, Email traffic trends, teams usage heatmaps, login patterns, device access breakdown and other needful can be obtained for the admin works. The dashboards are interactive and customizable which makes them very valuable during audit and reviews.

ADVANCEMENT IN AUDIT AND MONITORING:

AdminDroid provides a centralized auditing for 

Sign in

Permission changes

Mailbox access events

Teams message/ activity logs

File operations in OneDrive/SharePoint

The Human readable format of audit logs with specified filters for IP address, device time, status and much more are given. This readily saves hours of manual investigation.

ADVANCEMENT IN SECURITY AND RISK VISULIZATION:

AdminDroid helps in threat identification patterns, which benefits users in security teams. It displays logins that happened outside the geographical zones that are not approved, also tracks impossible travel events and sudden spikes in external sharing. All these insights help to detect problems before Microsoft generates alerts in the security center.

SUPPORT FOR MANAGED SERVICE PROVIDERS AND MULTI TENANT ENVIRONMENTS:

AdminDroid provides a centralized platform to monitor and report across multiple Microsoft 365 Tenants especially for Managed Service Providers (MSPs).

For each ,they have

Separate dashboards,

Individual alerting rules

Custom branding

Scheduled reports sent directly to clients

All this reduces the effort that arises in the manual reporting.

BETTERMENT OF ADMINDROID WITH TUNE:

DEPTH IN REPORTING:

365Tune focuses mainly on monitoring and performance. Whereas, AdminDroid heavily focuses on reporting and analytics. AdminDroid reduces the security risk by real time alerts and audit logs to quickly detect threats. Helps in decision-making and cost optimization,as managers can understand usage trends easily through dashboards and identify unused licenses and users to save major costs.

SUITABILITY OF ADMINDROID:

AdminDroid is more suitable for these list of users,

IT administrators

Security and compliance teams

Managed Service Providers

Large organization with multiple departments

LIMITATIONS:

AdminDroid requires permission to access Microsoft 365 data.

The Paid version only has advanced reporting features.

AdminDroid is very useful to get a higher secure management in the larger organization. It enhances secure and timely management of events that occur in various sectors of an organization.

AdminDroid is a powerful tool that enhances the performance and excellent enhancement for Microsoft 365 reporting, security insights and audit visibility.

AdminDroid with Microsoft 365 is a best additional companion tool.