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Change Auditor for Exchange

Learn about Change Auditor for Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365 change auditing and activity reporting

Change Auditor for Exchange simplifies the audit process by tracking, auditing, reporting and alerting on Microsoft® Exchange Server and Office 365 Exchange Online configuration and permission changes in real time. To ensure Exchange and Office 365 compliance, you can automatically generate intelligent, in-depth reports, protecting you against policy violations and avoiding the risks and errors associated with day-to-day modifications. And, for fast troubleshooting, you always get the original and current values.

Change Auditor for Exchange audits all critical changes to Exchange and Exchange Online such as mailbox logins/access, non-owner mailbox activity, and permission changes. Make Microsoft Exchange reporting easier than ever with real-time audits that protect your organization’s security policies as well as prevent compliance violations, system downtime and massive productivity loss.

Features
Tour
Specifications
Resources
Support & Services

Features

Hybrid environment auditing with a correlated view

Audit Exchange and Exchange Online environments. Change Auditor provides a single, correlated view of activity across hybrid Exchange environments, ensuring visibility of all changes taking place in your environment whether on-premises or in the cloud

At-a-glance display

Tracks user and administrator activity with detailed information including who, what, when, where, which workstation and why for change events, plus original and current values for all changes.

Search and correlate activity across hybrid messaging environments to easily identify all activity regardless of whether it took place in the cloud or on premises

Non-owner mailbox-access auditing

Provides a detailed view of any changes made to mailboxes that have been accessed by a non-owner, which enhances security and compliance.

Office 365 auditing

Audits administrator access and end user mailbox activity for mailboxes hosted on Office 365. Events are searchable and integrated into reports for a more complete picture of what’s happening in Exchange and Exchange Online.

Object protection

Prevents anyone but the mailbox owner from accessing sensitive or critical mailboxes.

Auditor-ready reporting

Generates comprehensive reports for best practices and regulatory compliance mandates for GDPR, SOX, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FISMA, GLBA and more.

Integrated event forwarding

Easily integrate with SIEM solutions to forward Change Auditor events to Splunk, HP Arcsight or IBM QRadar. Additionally, Change Auditor integrates with Quest InTrust for long-term 20:1 compressed event storage and aggregation of native or third-party logs to reduce storage costs on SIEM forwarding and create a highly-compressed log repository.

Improved insights with IT Security Search

Correlate disparate IT data from numerous systems and devices into an interactive search engine for fast security incident response and forensic analysis. Include user entitlements and activity, event trends, suspicious patterns and more with rich visualizations and event timelines.

Event timeline

Enables the viewing, highlighting and filtering of change events and the relation of other events over the course of time in chronological order across your Windows environment for better understanding and forensic analysis of those events and trends.

Public folder support

Tracks changes made to Exchange public folders, which speeds troubleshooting and ensures compliance.

High-performance auditing engine

Removes auditing limitations and captures change information without the need for native audit logs, resulting in faster results and significant savings of storage resources.

ActiveSync auditing

Audits mobile devices using the Microsoft ActiveSync to track email and calendar access, device registration and more for on-premises Exchange.

Real-time alerts on the move

Sends critical change and pattern alerts to email and mobile devices to prompt immediate action, enabling you to respond faster to threats even while you're not on site.

Role-based access

Configures access so auditors can run searches and reports without making any configuration changes to the application, and without requiring the assistance and time of the administrator.

Web-based access with dashboard reporting

Searches from anywhere using a web browser and creates targeted dashboard reports to provide upper management and auditors with access to the information they need without having to understand architecture or administration.

Tour

Alerts

Alert and monitor critical changes made to Exchange.

Non-owner mailbox

Alert on and monitor changes made to non-owner mailboxes.

Mailbox selection

Select which mailboxes and/or administration activity you want to audit.

Web-based event timeline

View, report and analyze audit activity from a web-based console.

Role-based access

Provide role-based access to control who can do or see what.

Object protection

Prevent changes to critical objects and settings.

Specifications

Change Auditor System Requirements

There are specific system requirements for the Change Auditor coordinator (server-side), Change Auditor client (client-side), Change Auditor agent (server-side), and the Change Auditor workstation and web client (optional components). For a full list of system requirements and required permissions for all components and target systems that can be audited by Change Auditor please refer to the Change Auditor Installation Guide.

Change Auditor Coordinator Requirements (Server-side component)

The Change Auditor coordinator is responsible for fulfilling client and agent requests and for generating alerts.

Processor: Quad core Intel® Core™ i7 equivalent or better

Memory: Minimum: 8 GB RAM or better

Recommended: 32 GB RAM or better

SQL Server

SQL databases supported up to the following versions:

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP4
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2

Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2
Microsoft SQL Server 2017

NOTE: Change Auditor supports SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups and SQL Clusters.

Operating system

Installation platforms (x64) supported up to the following versions:

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019

NOTE: Microsoft Windows Data Access Components (MDAC) must be enabled. (MDAC is part of the operating system and enabled by default.)

Coordinator software and configuration

For the best performance, Quest strongly recommends:

Install the Change Auditor coordinator on a dedicated member server.

The Change Auditor database should be configured on a separate, dedicated SQL server instance.

NOTE: Do NOT pre-allocate a fixed size for the Change Auditor database.

In addition, the following software/configuration is required:

The coordinator must have LDAP and GC connectivity to all domain controllers in the local domain and the forest root domain.
x64 version of Microsoft’s .NET 4.6.1

x64 version of Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 6.0
x64 version of Microsoft SQLXML 4.0

Coordinator footprint

Estimated hard disk space used: 1 GB.
Coordinator RAM usage is highly dependent on the environment, number of agent connections, and event volume.
Estimated database size will vary depending on the number of agents deployed and audited events captured.

Additional Account Coordinator minimum permissions required, please see Change Auditor Installation Guide .

Resources

Datasheet

Change Auditor for Exchange

Document all critical group, mailbox and public/private changes to Exchange

On Demand Webcast

How to Audit Office 365 and Exchange Online Privileged Operations and Mailbox Access

Moving Exchange to the cloud eliminates a lot of work, but it doesn’t eliminate your compliance responsibilities or security requirements. To be secure and detect information grabs and data theft, you need to monitor various activities of Exchange Online.

Case Study