Coming soon to general availability, admins will be able to enable logging of external user activities accessing the Office 365 Message Encryption Portal to retrieve encrypted mail. This feature is currently in public preview.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88914.
Message ID: MC379710
Release Phase:
General Availability, Preview
Created: 2022-05-14
Updated: 2022-08-27
Product: Exchange, Information Protection, Information Protection – Office 365, Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection, Purview, Purview Communication Compliance, Purview compliance portal, Purview Information Protection, Purview Insider Risk Management
Platform: Online, Web, World tenant
Status: Launched
Change type: Admin impact, New feature, Updated message
Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88914
When this will happen
Rollout will begin in mid-June and is expected to be complete by early July.
How this will affect your organization
This feature will enable logging of external user activities accessing the Office 365 Message Encryption Portal to retrieve encrypted mail. These logs can be retrieved using the Audit Logs functionality in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. You can also access these audit logs through the management API.
View image in new tabWhat you need to do to prepare:
This feature is not available by default unless you have enabled auditing.
- To enable the feature, go to Microsoft Purview compliance portal > Audit log search page and select Turn on auditing.
You can enable the portal logs using Exchange PowerShell:
Set-IrmConfiguration -EnablePortalTrackingLogs $true
Learn more:
- Search the audit log in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal
- Advanced Message Encryption