Viewing Users

The Users page provides summary information about your Spanning licenses and details about each user in your Microsoft 365 tenant. Spanning automatically refreshes the user list once per day to search for new users in your Microsoft 365 tenant.

Summary tiles

Review the tiles at the top of the page to see:

  • the number of Spanning licenses purchased, assigned, and remaining, by license type.
  • the number of users (members) and shared mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 tenant— so you can see at a glance whether you have an adequate number of Spanning licenses.

NOTE  Microsoft 365 guest accounts are not included in the Users tile counts.

Users list

View the list of users below the tiles for details about each Microsoft 365 user. For users with a Spanning license, a snapshot of their last 30 backups displays.

See these topics for details:

To modify the list that displays, you can:

  • search for a user name or email address by entering text in the Search field.

  • filter the list by clicking and entering criteria in the Filter dialog.

  • click the User column heading to sort the list in ascending or descending order (by user name).

To view information about a user's last backups, click that user row in the list:

The user list is updated with users from your Microsoft 365 tenant once per day. If new users that were recently created in your tenant do not display in the Spanning user list, you do not need to wait for the daily automated sync to run. Instead, use these steps to initiate an on-demand tenant sync:

  1. Log into Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 as an admin user.
  2. On the Users page, click .
  3. The manual sync is initiated. While the sync runs in the background, you can continue working in Spanning Backup. When the sync is complete, any newly added users display in the users list.

The following information displays for each user in the list:

  • User – User name.
  • Email – Email address.
  • License Type – Hover over the icon for a description: Standard or Archived.
  • Tags – Hover over the icon for a description: Global Admin, Spanning Admin, API User, User, Shared Mailbox, Deleted from Microsoft, or No Microsoft License.

NOTE  If you see the tag No Microsoft License, all Spanning backups fail. To stop running backups, deactivate the user's license or assign an archived license to the user. For details, see Deactivating licenses or Assigning archived licenses to user accounts.

  • Storage – Hover for a description: Total Protected versus Total Stored.
  • Last 30 Backups – Status of the user's last 30 backups:
    • indicates that the backup was successful. Hover to view the date and number of problems.
    • indicates that the backup was partially completed. Hover to view the date and number of problems. Click to view details on the Problems page.
    • indicates that the backup failed. Hover to view the date and number of problems. Click to view details on the Problems page.
    • indicates that there is no backup. (No backups are run for archived licenses or users with the Deleted from Microsoft tag.) Hover to view the date.

  • – Click to view backups or run a backup on-demand.