Change Auditor for Skype for Business
How to audit changes to Microsoft Skype for Business in Change Auditor for Skype for Business
Strengthen policy enforcement with proactive Skype for Business/Lync management
Get complete visibility into how your communication environment is set up and enforced with a single solution. Change Auditor for Skype for Business audits, alerts and reports on administrator activity, security and configuration changes in real time. With its enterprise-wide visibility, it allows you to see how Skype for Business/Lync is configured and enforced so you can take a proactive management approach. By doing so, you can:
- Better enforce communication policies
- Eliminate mistakes or violations
- Reduce downtime
- Strengthen compliance and security
Features
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.
At-a-glance display
Tracks critical Skype for Business/Lync changes made by administrators including adding, deleting or modifying user accounts, backend configurations and security settings. Provides detailed information on who, what, when, where and from which workstation for change events, plus original and current values for all changes.
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 when you’re off-site.
Related searches
Provides instant, one-click access to all information on the change you're viewing and all related events, eliminating guesswork and unknown security concerns.
Best practice reporting
Provides system visibility with comprehensive reports for best practices, such as infrastructure updates, administrator changes and user configurations.
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.
Role-based access
Configures access so auditors can run searches and reports without making any configuration changes to the application or having to involve the administrator.
Event timeline
Enables the viewing, highlighting and filtering of change events and their relation to other events over time, resulting in better understanding of trends and events.
Web-based access with dashboard reporting
Enables searches from anywhere using a web browser, and creates targeted dashboard reports that provide upper management and auditors with access to the information they need quickly.
Specifications
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.
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 SP1
- Microsoft SQL Server 2017
NOTE: Change Auditor does not support SQL high availability technology other than 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
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 .
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