Reporting in Azure Active Directory consists of two main components, their activity and security. Activity governs sign-ins and audit logs while security governs risky sign-ins and users that are flagged as a risk. Sign-ins, which are reported under activity, provide information about managed application usage as well as user sign-in activities. Audit logs, also found under activity, provide information about user and group management activities. Also included is information on managed applications and directory activities. Risk sign-ins, which fall under security, indicate attempts that may have been performed by someone who is not the legitimate owner of an account. Users flagged for risk, however, refer to user accounts that may have been compromised. To access the data in the sign-in activity reports, a user must be assigned the security administrator, security reader or report reader role. Global administrators can also access the data in the sign-in activity reports. Additionally, any user can access his or her own sign-ins. In order to access sign-in activity, a tenant must have an Azure AD Premium license associated with it. Without an Azure AD Premium license, you cannot see the sign-in activity reports. Administrators can use the user sign-ins report to view the sign-in pattern of a user, how many users have signed in over the course of the week, and the status of the sign-ins. To access the sign-ins report, click sign-ins in the activity section of the Azure Active Directory blade. From here, you can view interactive sign-ins which refer to instances where a user has manually signed in using his or her username and password. The sign-ins report does not, however, display non-interactive sign-ins such as service-to-service authentications. The default view of the sign-ins log shows the recorded sign-in date, the related user, the application the user is signed into, the status of the sign-in, the status of the risk detection for the sign-in, and the status of the multi-factor authentication requirement for the sign-in in question. The view can be customized by clicking columns in the toolbar. In addition to viewing the default report, you can narrow down the reported data by filtering the sign-ins data by user, application, sign-in status, conditional access and date. In the next lesson, we'll walk through a demo of how to use the sign-in activity reports to view activity.

LECTURES: Course Introduction - What is Authentication - Designing an Authentication Method - Configuring Multi-Factor Authentication - Accessing MFA Service Settings - Enable SSPR - Sign-in Activity Reports in the Azure Active Directory Portal - Using Sign-in Activity Reports in the Azure Active Directory Portal - Azure Active Directory Monitoring - Implement MFA - Manage User Settings with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication in the Cloud - Manage MFA for Users - Reports in Azure Multi-Factor Authentication - Configure Application Registration in Azure AD - How to Configure Application Registration in Azure AD - What is Azure AD Application Proxy - Configure Azure AD Application Proxy - Azure Active Directory B2B - Add Guest Users to Your Directory in the Azure Portal - Conclusion