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Microsoft 365 is a popular collaboration and communication tool used by many organizations. To utilize it effectively, you need to keep a close eye on all the activities and have access to precise, comprehensive data about the setup. Additionally, Microsoft 365 offers only simple reports that provide minimal data into the workings of Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, and other services. The cloud platform has just two audit logs and doesn't provide many features to ensure intuitive or efficient management. There is no option to schedule repetitive tasks and reports, which is another shortcoming of the native Microsoft 365 setup.
Auditing and securing users and their activities from a single point could simplify your work, and this is what ManageEngine provides with M365 Security Plus. It addresses areas and features where the native Microsoft 365 environment is lacking.
This document compares Microsoft 365 and ManageEngine M365 Security Plus.
To secure Microsoft 365 from threats, IT admins should track all the events happening in the Microsoft 365 environment. But native Microsoft 365 only offers you two audit logs:
With M365 Security Plus' more than 400 built-in audit reports, you can access precise details on various activities, and also create and schedule to run customized audit profiles according to your auditing needs.
The alert features in ManageEngine's M365 Security Plus ensure you are notified of crucial changes happening in your organization so you can rule out checking audit reports constantly for suspicious activities. Unlike Microsoft 365, M365 Security Plus provides over 75 alert profiles that enable you to create personalized email alerts that you can schedule to run.
| Audit Profiles | M365 Security Plus | Microsoft 365 | ||
| Availability | (No: of audit profiles) | Availability | (No: of audit profiles) | |
| Security and Compliance audit log |  |
0 |  |
1 |
| Azure Active Directory audit log | |
16 | |
1 |
| Exchange Online audit log | |
31 | |
0 |
| Microsoft Teams audit log | |
4 | |
0 |
| OneDrive for Business audit log | |
16 | |
0 |
| SharePoint audit log | |
19 | |
0 |
| Power BI audit log | |
1 | |
0 |
| Alert Profiles | M365 Security Plus | Microsoft 365 | ||
| Availability | (No: of alert reports) | Availability | (No: of alert reports) | |
| Exchange Online | |
22 | |
0 |
| Azure Active Directory | |
16 | |
0 |
| OneDrive for Business | |
16 | |
0 |
| Microsoft Teams | |
3 | |
0 |
| SharePoint Online | |
19 | |
0 |
Keeping an eye on your Microsoft 365 environment's health is essential. But Microsoft 365's native health features are limiting and confusing. M365 Security Plus provides you with comprehensive data in graphical displays that also enables you to drill-down for granular details. You can easily monitor your organization's health, including your services' features and endpoints, as well as visualize specific details such as the number of users affected by a performance issue at any given time.
| Monitoring Profiles | M365 Security Plus | Microsoft 365 |
| Graphical representation of data | |
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| Health details for each Microsoft 365 service | |
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| Schedule monitoring profiles | |
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| Create new monitoring profiles | |
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| Separate health details for features and endpoints | |
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M365 Security Plus’ mailbox content search helps you keep an eye on the emails sent and received by your organization. M365 Security Plus not only helps you retrieve emails and attachments lost amongst a growing list of emails, but also ensures email security and compliance.
| Microsoft 365 Security | ||
| Capability | M365 Manager Plus | Microsoft 365 |
| Instant content search | |
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| Keyword based search | |
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| Pattern based search | |
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| Condition based search | |
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| Export search result | |
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| Automated search | |
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| Search for mail attachments | |
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| Search message headers | |
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| Additional Features | M365 Security Plus | Microsoft 365 | |
| Manage Multiple Microsoft 365 accounts | |
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| Technicians | Ability to delegate users with administrative privileges | |
(Limited, can only delegate technicians default roles) |
| Customizable Dashboard | Ability to choose the reports that you want to be displayed on the dashboard | |
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| Embed Dashboard/ widgets to other webpages | Embed dashboard/ widgets to webpages | |
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| Schedule and send selected audit reports via email | Scheduler to create and send selected reports via email | |
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| Export audit reports for offline use | Export reports to CSV, PDF, XLSX, HTML | |
(only CSV) |
| Virtual tenant creation | Segment and group Microsoft 365 domains, user, groups, and other objects based on your administrative needs. | |
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| Notification templates | Create custom, reusable notification templates that define the recipient list, message, and the module (report, alerts, monitoring, etc.). | |
(only CSV) |
* Comparison is done based on the information available on the competitor's website. The details may vary with the real product.
Assigning roles and tasks to people in your organization ensures administration is effective and uncomplicated. M365 Security Plus' delegation feature enables help desk technicians to create custom roles, and delegate them to users, reducing an IT admins' workload.
ManageEngine's M365 Security Plus is available in Standard and Professional editions. The pricing of both is license-based. Click here to check our prices.
The comparisons prove that the native Microsoft 365 tools lack many vital management capabilities, such as precise auditing and detailed monitoring reports. M365 Security Plus overcomes these shortcomings and ensures managing your Microsoft 365 environment is more efficient and cost-effective.
