How to use audit logs to monitor group-based licensing activity?
With group-based licensing, you can assign, remove, or change Office 365 licenses for a specific group of users. Monitoring these changes is essential for managing license allocation efficiently and duplicate license assignments.
Microsoft Entra audit logs allow you to identify who made changes to licenses within groups.
- To find the group-based license changes, navigate to the Microsoft Entra admin center.
- Go to Audit logs under the Monitoring & health section and use the filters below.
- Category- GroupManagement
- Service-Core Directory
- Activity-Set group license
- Once applied, click on a row and expand it to view the additional details.
- Now, click the Modified Properties tab to see the old and new values for the license assignment.
![entra-group](../images/how-to-images/azure/monitor-user-license-changes/entra-group.png?v=5110_21)
With AdminDroid, you can easily audit Microsoft 365 group license changes whenever there's a modification in the Azure AD group license.
- This report displays details such as activity time, username, group name, group-based license assignment, etc.
- Monitoring these changes helps you identify groups with unused licenses or features. Thus, you can remove unnecessary licenses from the group and optimize overall licensing costs.
![ad-group](../images/how-to-images/azure/monitor-user-license-changes/ad-group.png?v=5110_21)
Hint: Filter the report based on your preferred license and save it using the Save as View feature. This eliminates the need to reapply filters each time, ensuring efficiency and convenience for future use.