You access the User Registration Report only from the Monitoring Reports home page. The User Registration Report does not link to any other reports.

After you've deployed Lync Server one commonly-asked question is this: How do I know if my users are actually using this new technology? Although it has a few limitations in this regard, the User Registration Report can help you answer this question. To determine whether or not users are using Lync Server, you need to do two things. First, get the value of the Unique logon users metric from the User Registration Report. This value tells you how many distinct individuals logged on to Lync Server.

By comparison, the Total logons metric shows how many total times anyone logged on to Lync Server. For example, suppose Ken Myer logged on to Lync Server five different times in a single day. In that case, Ken Myer would count as five separate logon sessions for the Total logons metric, but just one logon user for the Unique logon users metric. Likewise, it's not uncommon for a user to log on from multiple devices or multiple locations. For example, a user can log on using her desktop computer, her laptop computer, and she can have an IP phone that automatically logs on to Lync Server. In this example, there is one unique user with three logons.

To further explain the difference between total logons and unique logons, consider the logons for a given time period in the following table.

Notice that there is a total of five logons; however, there are only two unique logon users: Ken Myer (who logged on three times) and Pilar Ackerman (who logged on twice). That's the difference between logons and unique logon users.

In addition to knowing the number of unique logons, you need to know the total number of users who have been enabled for Lync Server. That value can be retrieved by opening the Lync Server 2013 Management Shell and running the following Windows PowerShell command:

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(Get-CsUser).Count

If the preceding command returns a value of 1,236 and Unique logon users metric returns an average value of 667, that suggests that a little over half of your users enable for Lync are actually logging on to the system each day (that is, 667 divided by 1,236, which is approximately 54%).

Warning:

Keep in mind that the logon metrics record users who actually logged on during the specified time period. They don't keep track of users who were already logged on to the system. For example, if your Unique logon users metric shows 667 logons and you have 1,236 users, that suggests that about half your users are logging on to the system. However, suppose 300 users were already logged on to the system at the time you began checking the logon data. That would mean that you actually had nearly 1,000 users logged on to Lync Server, which would mean that closer to 80% of your users were logged on.

You should also compare the Unique logon users value with the value of the Unique active users metric. The Unique active users metric tells you how many unique users actually used Lync Server: they made a phone call, they joined a Lync Meeting, or they participated in an IM session. This is useful information, because Microsoft Lync 2013 can be configured to automatically start each time a user starts Windows. Because of that, you might have a large number of users who automatically log on to Lync when they log on to Windows each day, but then never actually use Lync Server during that time period.

The Unique active users metric also provides more meaningful data in an organization where users typically do not log off Windows at the end of the day. Instead, they simply lock their computers and leave Windows and Lync running. In a situation like that, you might end up with very few logons per day because your users logged on several days ago and never logged off. However, Unique active users tells you whether users are actively using Lync or another Lync Server client.

Filters provide a way for you to return a more finely targeted set of data or to view the returned data in different ways. For example, the User Registration Report enables you to view data for all your Registrar pool and Edge Servers or to view data for an individual pool. You can also choose how data should be grouped. In this case, registrations grouped by hour, day, week, or month.

The following table lists the filters that you can use with the User Registration Report.

User Registration Report Filters

The following table lists the information provided in the User Registration Report.

User Registration Report Metrics