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