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MC379710: General availability of Advanced Message Encryption – Office 365 Message Encryption portal access logs

Updated June 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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.

This feature will enable logging of external user activities accessing the Office 365 Message Encryption Portal to retrieve encrypted mail. The logs can be retrieved using the Audit Logs functionality in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

MC379710: General availability of Advanced Message Encryption - Office 365 Message Encryption portal access logs

When this will happen

Rollout will begin in mid-July (previously mid-June) and is expected to be complete by mid-August (previously 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.

You can also access these audit logs through the management API.

What you need to do to prepare

This feature is not available by default unless you have enabled auditing.

You can enable the portal logs using Exchange PowerShell:

  • Set-IrmConfiguration -EnablePortalTrackingLogs $true

Learn more

Message ID: MC379710
Published: 14 May 2022
Updated: 21 June 2022

Alex Lim is a certified IT Technical Support Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex IT systems and networks. He has worked for leading IT companies, such as Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco, providing technical support and solutions to clients across various industries and sectors. Alex has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore and a master’s degree in information security from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of several best-selling books on IT technical support, such as The IT Technical Support Handbook and Troubleshooting IT Systems and Networks. Alex lives in Bandar, Johore, Malaysia with his wife and two chilrdren. You can reach him at [email protected] or follow him on Website | Twitter | Facebook

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