Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

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In some situations, you might have special accounts such as a backup service account that you want to exclude from auditing. For these cases, you can configure these accounts to bypass mailbox audit logging, so that actions performed by them on any mailbox are not logged. However, you cannot bypass audit logging for an account on a specific mailbox only; this is a global change.

To configure an auditing bypass, you must use the Shell and the following cmdlet:

    Set-MailboxAuditBypassAssociation svc_Backup `
    -AuditBypassEnabled $True

Auditing users that have the capability of assigning FullAccess permissions, setting the AuditBypassEnabled option, or enabling/disabling audit is harder. Nothing prevents a user with this level ...