Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out

Auditing administrator actions

As even a brief reading of this book reveals, an administrator has the ability to change many settings or create many new objects that influence the way Exchange operates. Up to Exchange 2010, there was no facility available to be able to track who did what and when at an administrative level. The addition of Windows PowerShell and its ability to affect many objects with relatively simple commands reinforced the need to be able to log what happens within an Exchange organization.

Exchange 2010 includes the ability to audit actions taken by administrators in EMC and EMS. This is intended to allow organizations to maintain records of who did what and when to execute the cmdlets used to manage Exchange. Apart from providing ...