Mike Austin shows how to find Visio users who never activated the client software, so you can downgrade their licenses and cut costs. Check activation logs to spot who's only using the online version.
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Actually going to drill into this and show you because here's the services that make up a Visio online. You'll notice that the biggest one is OneDrive, because files get saved up to this OneDrive basic service. And so these people have definitely viewed them, but we don't know if they're actually using Visio. Right. And so one of the things that I can tell you is number two, users have never even activated the Visio client. They haven't activated the Visio client either. They're only a viewer and can go from a plan three to a plan one. They're not using the thing altogether and they just happen to have a OneDrive thing that they clicked on that makes that tricks the system into believing that. And so again, when we look at Project in, Visio had a client that had 500 project and 500 visio, and by the time we were done they were down to 250 because only half of the people actually activated it and they went out and pulled and the people weren't using it, but they would have had no clue, no way of knowing that.