Activity

The M365 Plugin Activity module protects various reports concerning user activity and usage within m365.

The information protected with this module is detailed below:

• m365GroupsActivityStorage

• m365GroupsActivityDetail

• m365ActiveUserDetail

• m365ActivationsUserDetail

• m365AppUserDetail

• yammerDeviceUsageUserDetail

• yammerActivityUserDetail

• yammerActivityGroupsDetail

• teamsDeviceUsageUserDetail

• teamsActivityUserDetail

• teamsActivityGroupDetail

• skypeDeviceUsageUserDetail

• skypeActivityUserDetail

• sharepointSiteUsageStorage

• sharepointSiteUsageDetail

• sharepointActivityUserDetail

• oneDriveUsageStorage

• oneDriveUsageAccountDetail

• oneDriveActivityUserDetail

• mailboxUsageStorage

• mailboxUsageDetail

• emailAppUsageUserDetail

• emailActivityUserDetail

The catalog stores the information with the following structure:

• /@m365/tenantName/activity/

  • reportName.csv

Note

The activity module is available since Bacula 18.0.1.

Backup Parameters

The following list shows the specific backup parameters that can be set up in order to control the behavior of the activity module.

In order to select the chat module, the common service parameter must be or contain the value activity.

Option	Required	Default	Values	Example	Description
activity_exchange	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include exchange/mailbox-related reports
activity_onedrive	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include onedrive-related reports
activity_sharepoint	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include sharepoints-related reports
activity_teams	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include teams-related reports
activity_yammer	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include yammer-related reports
activity_skype	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include skype-related reports
activity_general	No	Yes	0, no, No, false, FALSE, false, off ; 1, yes, Yes, TRUE, true, on	No	Include general m365 service-related reports
activity_period_days	No	180	7, 30, 90, 180	90	Period of days ‘from’ used to generate the report. Only documented values are allowed
activity_from	No		date formatted like: yyyy-MM-dd_HH:mm:ss	2024-01-01_00:00:00	Date ‘from’ used to generate the reports. This method only permits values from the last 30 days

One recommended strategy to protect the information of these reports is to define a supported period, such as 1 week. Then, activity_period_days can be set to 7 and run weekly. This way, the reports will contain only updated information each time, avoiding duplicate entries.

Restore Parameters

Restore of reports can only be performed to a local filesystem to the File Daemon. Therefore, ‘where’ restore parameter should point to the destination directory where the information needs to be restored.

Fileset Examples

Backup all reports:

Fileset Example

FileSet {
        Name = fs-m365-reports
        Include {
                Options { signature = MD5 }
                Plugin = "m365: service=activity tenant=57uia43-d107-17a2-a2g2-aa53c10tdahc objectid=56ddf1h9-eb5d-42nf-bac7-7b019fd284g5"
        }
}

Backup reports of the last week:

Fileset Example

FileSet {
        Name = fs-m365-peter-chat-noimages
        Include {
                Options { signature = MD5 }
                Plugin = "m365: service=activity tenant=57uia43-d107-17a2-a2g2-aa53c10tdahc objectid=56ddf1h9-eb5d-42nf-bac7-7b019fd284g5 activity_period_days=7"
        }
}