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

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.

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.

Logging of external user activitiesView image in new tabWhat 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


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