Delete Administrator Audit Logging

How can the system administrator control the Administrator Audit Logging of the Exchange Server.. What I want to do is to check the audit logging ( for some users who get access for an email) and delete some specific operations ( Like search and granting
access) .. also how can I delete the log directly?

Hi,
Based on my research, to delete the audit log entries which are over 7 days, we can set the AdminAuditLogAgeLimit parameter. Thus, let’s firstly try to double check the property by the following command:
Get-AdminAuditLogConfig | FL AdminAuditLogAgeLimit
If the value is 02.00:00:00, let’s check if there is any error in the event log to narrow down the cause.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Angela Shi
TechNet Community Support

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Exchange 2013 SP1 - The attempt to search the administrator audit log failed.

During migration process from Exchange 2010 to 2013, after moving Arbitration mailbox from Exchange 2010 database to Exchange 2013 SP1 database, cmdlet Search-AdminAuditLog fails with following error.
The attempt to search the administrator audit log failed. Please try again later.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Search-AdminAuditLog], AdminAuditLogSearchException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=EX2013,RequestId=517873e3-a623-4363-bfdc-e5aa23595c33,TimeStamp=29. 4. 2014
8:38:37] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-AdminAuditLogSearchException] 2774D0CF,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfig
urationTasks.SearchAdminAuditLog
+ PSComputerName : ex2013.domainname.local

Hi,
First, please make sure the Microsoft Exchange Search and the Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller service are running and please run the get-mailbox -arbitration cmdlet to check the result.
Besides, please check the properties of the DiscoverySearchMailbox and verify that the homeMDB attribute is set to a mounted database.
If the steps above don't work, please try to re-create a new Discovery System Mailbox to check the result. You can refer to the following article.
Re-Create the Discovery System Mailbox
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/gg588318(v=exchg.150).aspx
Best regards,
Belinda
Belinda Ma
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I can't delete Data Audit log. Out of process memory

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Num: 0x80040e14;Type: 1;DTime: 8/1/2010 11:48:56 PM;Svr: LCLNTHQ134;File: DataDataAudit.cpp;Line: 2398;Ver: 9.3.1.11.2590;DStr: ORA-04030: out of process memory when trying to allocate 258072 bytes (callheap,kllcqas:kllsltba);
Num: 0x80004005;Type: 0;DTime: 8/1/2010 11:48:56 PM;Svr: LCLNTHQ134;File: CHsvData.cpp;Line: 17239;Ver: 9.3.1.0.2385;
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Hi there,
Can anyone tell me what will happen when the Security audit Log file is full on OS-level. Will the system stop? Is the file overwritten?
Best regards,
Joris

Hello Joris ,
1 ) Is the file overwritten? -> No
2 ) Will the system stop? -> Yes , if there will no free space on drive / file system SAP system will stop.
How to delete :
1.      To access the Security Audit Log reorganization tool from the SAP standard menu, choose Administration à System Administration à Monitor à Security Audit Log à Reorganization.
The Security Audit: Delete Old Audit Logs screen appears.
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       4.      Activate the Simulation only indicator if you do not actually want to delete the files. In this case, the action is only simulated.
       5.      Choose Audit Log à Continue
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To accomplish my goal, so far I have done the following:
I have set the following parameter with these values
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Hello Srini,
I mentioned in my posting , that I already set AUDIT_SYSLOG_LEVEL=LEVEL3.NOTICE value.
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How to enable the Exchange 2010 Admin Audit logs in Event Viewer

How to enable the Exchange 2010 Admin Audit(Mailbox Auditing) logs in Event Viewer.
- Sivashankar. Please mark as answer/useful if my contribution is helpful

Hi Siva,
We could execute the command below to view Administrator Audit Logging settings:
Get-AdminAuditLogConfig
If it is not enabled, please run the command below:
Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -AdminAuditLogEnabled $True
In addition, here are some references for you to utilize this feature:
Configure Administrator Audit Logging :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335109(v=exchg.141).aspx
Search the Administrator Audit Log :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459262(v=exchg.141).aspx
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Exchange server 2010 audit logs

Hi ,
I have a requirement where I would like to hook to exchange audit logs and dump them into database as and when changes occur in exchange server any idea how to achieve it without much code changes i.e. is there any straight forward way?
I don't want to read the logs at the end of the day but it shoud be dynamic.
Regards,
Abhagwat

The script provided above should work fine in your circumstance.
It will help you to record all the actions taken by a user or administrator that make changes in exchange server. You can check this link also to enable the administrator audit log in exchange 2010 :
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298041%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx
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Increase retention period of Audit logs.

Friends,
We have the requirement from the Auditors to increase the retention period of logs from
3 months to 6 months.
Can someone please guide me on this one? Thanks and let me know.
Do I need to change any parameter in SAP to increase the size of Audit file @ OS level?
Any help or suggestions is helpful.
Regards,
Pranav

Lets return to the original question...
>
Pranav Thaker wrote:
> We have the requirement from the Auditors to increase the retention period of logs from
> 3 months to 6 months.
>
> Can someone please guide me on this one? Thanks and let me know.
> Do I need to change any parameter in SAP to increase the size of Audit file @ OS level?
>
> Any help or suggestions is helpful.
>
The management of daily files seems not to be the problem here, although it is relevant for the number of files created and their size... for storing them on external media for safekeeping (incase some auditor wants to read the file as well, or you do to reconstruct an event).
The possibility exists to delete the audit log files after 3 days. At the application layer, this is blocked for the 1st three days (as a security measure).
Most likely you only need to speak to your basis folks to ensure that there is enough space on the file system for the logs, and reschedule the job which is deleting the files to do so for files older than 6 months (instead of 3).
Now-a-days, 100 MB is not a lot of space and does not cost much. 600 MB will fit on a "vanialla" CD which costs less than 1 Euro. You can also copy then to an external medium before deleting them.
FYI: Reading the logs are a major pain, and I doubt that the auditors actually do this... but there are some usefull techniques you can use to send alerts when certain audit log messages appear (to solve the needle in a haystack problem) or read them all remotely and then use the same to drill down and analyze patterns. But you first need to know what the "alerts" are and which "patterns" to look for in the data you will be collecting. If you are only logging "unsuccesfull transaction start" and stuff like that, then you might as well turn it off again (even if it does keep the auditors happy).
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Hi i am configuring my sharepoint 2013, i want to use the audit feature, so i follow the steps
View audit log reports
To view an audit log report:
On the Settings menu, click Site settings.
Note The Site Collection Administration section will not be available if you do not have the necessary permissions, such as by being a member of the default Site Collections Administrators group.
In the Site Collection Administration section, select
Audit log reports.
but i cant see Audit log reports at all!!!!!!
any help is much appreiated!
My server is windows server 2012 and i am not using sharepoint foundation version.

i follow the steps in you website, that is the same website i referenced.
it ask me to :
On the Settings menu, click Site settings.
In the Site Collection Administration section, select
Audit log reports.
but the question is that i can NOT find this 'Audit log reports' link to select , the question is not i can not open the file.
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Site Collection Administration
Recycle bin
Site collection features
Site hierarchy
Site collection audit settings
Portal site connection
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Storage Metrics
Help settings
HTML Field Security
SharePoint Designer Settings
there is no 'Audit log reports' link!

Ms-exchange 2013 audit logs retrieving in csv format not working?

I need help regarding pulling specific information from exchange 2013. The information pertains to mail-exchange audit logs. The exchange in my environment is ms-exchange 2013. Steps performed so far are:-
**step#1**
Create test Environment on Exchange Server 2010 and Active Directory:
Two Mailboxes for testing (with dummy email messages) (i.e., test-mailbox-1, test-mailbox-2)
Two Active Directory Accounts for testing (testAcct01, testAcct02)
Assign Permission to Test Mailboxes: Owner of Email Box test-mailbox-1: testAcct01, Owner of Email Box test-mailbox-2: testAcct02
**step 2**
Enable Mailbox Auditing on the test-mailbox-1:
Use EMS to enable mailbox auditing on mailbox: test-mailbox-1
Commands:
o Set-Mailbox -Identity "test-mailbox-1" -AuditDelegate Copy,Create,FolderBind,HardDelete,Move,MoveToDeletedItems,SendAs,SendOnBehalf,SoftDelete,Update -AuditEnabled $true
o Set-Mailbox -Identity "test-mailbox-1" -AuditAdmin Copy,Create,FolderBind,HardDelete,MessageBind,Move,MoveToDeletedItems,SendAs,SendOnBehalf,SoftDelete,Update -AuditEnabled $true
Note: You must have permission for Organization Management and Record Management if you want to enable mailbox auditing.
**step#3**
Verify that the Mailbox Auditing is Successfully enabled for mailbox: test-mailbox-1:
 Use EMS to verify the settings of mailbox auditing
Command:
o Get-Mailbox "test-mailbox-1" | Format-List *audit*
**step#4**
Verify that the Mailbox Auditing is Successfully enabled for mailbox: test-mailbox-1:
Use EMS to verify the settings of mailbox auditing
Command:
o Get-Mailbox "test-mailbox-1" | Format-List *audit*
**step#5**
Perform test activities on mailbox “test-mailbox-1” using account id: testAcct02
For Example: Access Inbox folder, move items from one folder to another folder, delete items, read messages, send email using SendAs and SendOnBehalf, create new folder, copy email items etc.
**step#6**
Perform test activities on mailbox “test-mailbox-1” using “Administrator” Account.
For Example: Access Inbox folder, move items from one folder to another folder, delete items, read messages, send email using SendAs and SendOnBehalf, create new folder, copy email items etc.
**step#7**
Use EMS Cmdlet to retrieve Mailbox audit logs for mailbox “test-mailbox-1”
Command:
o Search-MailboxAuditLog -Identity test-mailbox-1 -LogonTypes Admin,Delegate –ShowDetails -StartDate mm/dd/2014 -EndDate mm/dd/2014 | Export-Csv “c:\test-Audit-Results.csv”
o New-MailboxAuditLogSearch "Admin and Delegate Access" -Mailboxes " test-mailbox-1" -LogonTypes Admin,Delegate -StartDate mm/dd/2014 -EndDate mm/dd/2014 -StatusMailRecipients [email protected]
I'm unable to go past step#7, as I see nothing in csv file. I don't know why is this? any help.

Hi,
I will perform these steps in my lab and paste the result.
Beg your patient waiting.
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Mavis
Mavis Huang
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IdM Audit Log

Does Identity Manager keep a record of all events like adds/deletes/modifies to entries it manages?
Are all attributes and values added recorded?
Are all attributes and values (before and after modification) recorded on updates?
Are all delete entry events recorded?
If so, how would I extract this information out of IdM to a log FILE?
Also, about how much effort is involved in creating the desired audit log FILE.
(Potential) Customers of Identity manager here have asked, after being shown a quick demo of IdM where is the ability to get statistical info e.g. how many entries added in past 24 hours/week/month? how many email accounts were created in past 24 hours/week/month etc etc...
I/they see a screen audit report as an IdM task but it doesnt seem to be able to dump useful information to a file. A file can be manipulated to produce these statistics, a screen cannot. This file can also be used by other external systems of course.

I cannot agree more with Mr greenfan88:
Clients should have a HIGH expectation in a system such as IDM which relates to provisionning, meta-directory and workflow
The main reason beeing that business processes are the core driver of successfull projects. Technical things comes in second place. Thus processes need to be highly traceable and reports customizable
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* Nearly half of the standard reports are administrative reports (ex: list the connectors status, list the admins...) => No business value
* Other reports are pure AuditLog reports that correspond to a grep on logs => Low business value
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* Auditor introduces the notion of COMPLIANCE rules. This is good BUT it should be extended to business attributes, time ranges, active/inactive status...
Except the COMPLIANCE addition, I don't see much interesting features from Auditor. It is still in V1 or beta ?
=> I hope the product line will improve to include REAL REPORTS like the ones we can make with BUSINESS OBJECTS or CRYSTAL REPORTS...
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Mailbox auditing log search only shows last 7 days

I have mailbox auditing turned on for a mailbox, and the audit log age limit is set to 90 days. When I run the non admin user access report however it only shows me auditing items for the past 7 days. If i go to powershell, and run search-mailboxauditlog
it shows the same 7 days. Any suggestions?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459237(v=exchg.150).aspx
Mailbox audit logs are generated for each mailbox that has mailbox audit logging enabled. Log entries are stored in the Audits subfolder of the audited mailbox Recoverable Items folder. This ensures that all audit logs are available from a single location,
regardless of which client access method was used to access the mailbox or which server or workstation an administrator used to access the mailbox audit log. If you move a mailbox to another Mailbox server, the mailbox audit logs for that mailbox are also
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Issue with Audit Log report in SharePoint 2010

I have enabled REPORTING feature at site collection level and configured the site collection audit settings. I tried to generated Audit log reports, most of the time it keeps on processing as shown in fig.It
keeps on processing, never comes to report generated successful message. how to overcome this issue?

i'm facing same issue, even when i tried to generate report for limited limited period(5 days) for a particular event(ex: delete or restore items (or) edit items).
I think, the below reference may guide you solve your issue
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/17151/how-often-should-the-auditing-log-be-cleared-to-not-affect-performance
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Hi,
I am not able to generate the Audit Log tampering report in version 8.0 of Sun Identity Manager. I am encountering the following message when I am trying to generate the report.
"Tamper-resistant logging is disabled. Unable to verify the integrity of the audit logs." I did not find any option to set the tamper-resistant logging feature in version 8.0 of Sun Idm.
In version 6 there is an option to set the tamper resistant audit log box by "Enabling tamper-resistant audit logs box" ( Please refer: http://docs.sun.com/source/819-4483/auditing.html)
The generated report (in version 6) did not show any data inspite of me deleting a row in the audit log.
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BOE XI 3.1 Removing Audit log files

Hi there experts,
we have an issue with our production BOE install (3.1 SP7) whereby we have over 39,000 audit log files awaiting processing in the BOE_HOME/auditing folder. These audit files were generated a few months back when we had an issue with the system whereby thousands of scheduled events were created, we are not sure how. The removal of these events has had a knock on effect in that we have too many audit files to process, ie the system just cant process them all quickly enough.
So my question is can we just remove these audit files from the auditing directory with no knock on effects as we dont need them loading into the audit database anyways as they are all multiples of the same event.
As an aside when we upgraded from SP3 to SP7 the problem went away, ie no new audit files for these delete events being generated. We are still to establish how/why these audit events were created but for the time being we just want to be able to remove them. Unfortunately as its a production system we don't want to just take a chance and remove them without some advice first.
thanks in advance
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Is your auditing running now? Or still pending? Can you check in Audit DB, what is the max(audit_timestamp? This will tell you when was the recent actvitiy happened.
Deleting the audit files, will not harm to your BO system. You will not be able to see auditing details for that period.
Is the new auditing files are processed? or you still see the files created in auditing folder without processing?
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