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Exchange Server is modifying GPOs in AD

ImedJrad-7062 45 Reputation points
2024-05-10T08:14:44.0433333+00:00

Hello Everyone,

in our SIEM, we are getting more than 300 incident a day that a GPO has been modified by the exchange server machine account and the Property Name: msExchMailboxAuditLastAdminAccess.

Can anyone please explain this incident, and give us tips on if we should ignore it or if we should some changes on Exchange or AD server.

Thanks

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Anonymous
2024-05-23T09:49:38.72+00:00

Hi @I-med,

Thanks for your response.

As Andy David said, mailbox auditing is enabled by default. 'msExchMailboxAuditLastAdminAccess' is the name of an Active Directory property. This property is used to record the last time an administrator accessed the Exchange mailbox. This value will change when the administrator accesses the mailbox. If it does not affect your normal use of Exchange Server, it is recommended that you ignore the change in this value.

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  1. Andy David - MVP 160.3K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-05-10T11:01:48.0966667+00:00

    Mailbox Auditing is enabled by default so that is prob expected. What exactly is getting changed according the alerts?

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