AipFileDeleted

Azure Information Protection is a service that allows organizations to classify and label sensitive data, and apply policies to control how that data is accessed and shared.

AipFileDeleted is a type of event that is recorded in the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. AipFileDeleted events represent an attempt to deleted an Azure Information Protection (AIP) labeled file. Within the event, ResultStatus shows whether or not the file deletion was successful.

Access the Office 365 Unified Audit Log

The audit logs can be accessed using the following methods:

Audit log search tool

  1. Go to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and sign in.
  2. In the left pane of the compliance portal, select Audit.

    Note

    If you don't see Audit in the left pane, see Roles and role groups in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and Microsoft Purview compliance for information about permissions.

  3. On the New Search tab, set Record type to AipDiscover and configure the other parameters. AipDiscover audit configurations
  4. Click Search to run the search using the criteria. In the results pane, select an event to view the results. Both discover and access operations can be viewed. AipDiscover audit results

For more information on viewing the audit logs in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, see Audit log activities.

Search Unified Audit Log in PowerShell

To access the Unified Audit Log using PowerShell, first connect to an Exchange Online PowerShell session by completing the following steps.

Establish remote PowerShell session

Once the connection is established, you can run Exchange Online cmdlets to manage your Exchange Online environment.

Open a PowerShell window and run the Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement command to install the Exchange Online Management module. This module provides cmdlets that can be used to manage Exchange Online.

  1. Connect-IPPSSession is a PowerShell cmdlet used to create a remote connection to an Exchange Online PowerShell session.
  2. Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement is a PowerShell cmdlet used to import the Exchange Online Management module into the current PowerShell session.
# Import the PSSSession and Exchange Online cmdlets
Connect-IPPSSession
Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement

Connect with a specific user

Command to prompt for a specific user for your Exchange Online credentials.

$UserCredential = Get-Credential 

Command to connect to Exchange Online using the provided credentials.

 Connect-ExchangeOnline -Credential $UserCredential -ShowProgress $true 

Connect with credentials in the current session

Connect to Exchange Online using the credentials in the current session

Connect-ExchangeOnline

Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet

The Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet is a PowerShell command that can be used to search the Office 365 Unified Audit Log. The Unified Audit Log is a record of user and administrator activity in Office 365 that can be used to track events. For best practices on using this cmdlet, see Best Practices for using Search-UnifiedAuditLog.

To extract the AipFileDeleted events from the Unified Audit Log using PowerShell, you can use the following command. This will search the Unified Audit Log for the specified date range and return any events with the record type "AipFileDeleted". The results will be exported to a CSV file at the specified path.

Search-UnifiedAuditLog -RecordType AipFileDeleted -StartDate (Get-Date).AddDays(-7) -EndDate (Get-Date) | Export-Csv -Path <output file>

The following is an example of AipFileDeleted event from PowerShell.

RecordType   : AipFileDeleted
CreationDate : 12/22/2022 8:50:10 PM
UserIds      : ipadmin@champion365.onmicrosoft.com
Operations   : FileDeleted
AuditData    : 
{
  "SensitiveInfoTypeData":[],
  "Common":{
    "ApplicationId":"c00e9d32-3c8d-4a7d-832b-029040e7db99",
    "ApplicationName":"Microsoft Azure Information Protection Scanners",
    "ProcessName":"MSIP.Scanner",
    "Platform":1,
    "DeviceName":"AIPSCANNER1.mscompliance.click",
    "Location":"On-premises file shares",
    "ProductVersion":"2.14.90.0"
  },
  "DataState":"Rest",
  "ObjectId":"fileshare\capacity\Data8\docs - Copy - Copy (7) - Copy\_creds\Acme Request for Time Off.doc",
  "UserId":"AdeleV@champion365.onmicrosoft.com",
  "UserId":"mipscanner@kazdemos.org",
  "ClientIP":" 52.159.112.221",
  "Id":"8417bbf6-3469-57bf-d48e-ee80f34c3d71",
  "RecordType":96,
  "CreationTime":"2022-12-22T20:50:10",
  "Operation":"FileDeleted",
  "OrganizationId":"ac1dff03-7e0e-4ac8-a4c9-9b38d24f062c",
  "UserType":5,
  "UserKey":"cab9530a-5b06-4c61-b09b-590fda6a40f8",
  "ResultStatus":"Succeeded"
}
ResultIndex  : 9
ResultCount  : 11
Identity     : 2e7b94ee-92f7-480f-8b14-89d4bc0c0e43
IsValid      : True
ObjectState  : Unchanged

Note

This is just an example of how you can use the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet. You may need to adjust the command and specify additional parameters based on your specific requirements. For more information on using PowerShell for unified audit logs, see search unified audit log.

Office 365 Management Activity API

In order to be able to query the Office 365 Management API endpoints, you'll need to configure your application with the right permissions. For a step-by-step guide, see Get started with Office 365 Management APIs.

The following is an example of AipFileDeleted event from REST API.

TenantId : bd285ff7-1a38-4306-adaf-a367669731c3
SourceSystem : RestAPI
TimeGenerated [UTC] : 2022-12-04T21:59:50.7763106Z
EventCreationTime [UTC] : 2022-12-01T22:10:41Z
Id : 8417bbf6-3469-57bf-d48e-ee80f34c3d71
Operation : FileDeleted
OrganizationId : ac1dff03-7e0e-4ac8-a4c9-9b38d24f062c
RecordType : 96
UserType : 5
Version : 1
Workload : Aip
UserId : mipscanner@kazdemos.org
UserKey : cab9530a-5b06-4c61-b09b-590fda6a40f8
ResultStatus : Succeeded
Scope : 1
ClientIP : 52.159.112.221
Common_ApplicationId : c00e9d32-3c8d-4a7d-832b-029040e7db99
Common_ApplicationName : Microsoft Azure Information Protection Scanner
Common_ProcessName : MSIP.Scanner
Common_Platform : 1
Common_DeviceName : AIPSCANNER1.mscompliance.click
Common_ProductVersion : 2.14.90.0
ObjectId : \\fileshare\capacity\Data8\docs - Copy - Copy (7) - Copy\_creds\Acme Request for Time Off.doc
SensitiveInfoTypeData : []
Common_Location : On-premises file shares
DataState : Rest
Type : AuditGeneral_CL

Attributes of the AipFileDeleted event

Event Type Description
ApplicationId GUID The ID of the application performing the operation.
ApplicationName String Friendly name of the application performing the operation. (Outlook, OWA, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
ClientIP IPv4/IPv6 The IP address of the device that was used when the activity was logged. For some services, the value displayed in this property might be the IP address for a trusted application (for example, Office on the web apps) calling into the service on behalf of a user and not the IP address of the device used by person who performed the activity.
CreationTime Date/time The date and time in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when the user performed the activity.
DataState String Rest = File was not open when event was logged
Use = File was in use when event was logged.
DeviceName String The device on which the activity happened.
Id GUID Unique identifier of an audit record.
IsProtected Boolean States whether or not the data is protected with encryption.
Location String The location of the document with respect to the user's device.
ObjectId String File full path (URL) that is being accessed by the user.
Operation String The operation type for the audit log. For AipFileDeleted, operation is FileDeleted.
OrganizationId GUID The GUID for your organization's Office 365 tenant. This value will always be the same for your organization, regardless of the Office 365 service in which it occurs.
Platform Double The platform where the activity occurred from.
0 = Unknown
1 = Windows
2 = MacOS
3 = iOS
4 = Android
5 = Web Browser
ProcessName String The relevant process name (Outlook, MSIP.App, WinWord, etc.)
ProductVersion String Version of the AIP client.
RecordType Double The type of operation indicated by the record. 96 represents an AipFileDeleted record.
ResultStatus String Indicates whether or not the file deletion succeeded.
Scope Double 0 represents that the event was created by a hosted O365 service. 1 represents that the event was created by an on-premises server.
SensitiveInfoTypeData String The sensitive information types that have been discovered within the data.
SensitivityLabelId GUID The current MIP sensitivity label GUID. Use cmdlt Get-Label to get the full values of the GUID.
UserId String The User Principal Name (UPN) of the user who performed the action that resulted in the record being logged.
UserKey GUID An alternative ID for the user identified in the UserId property. This property is populated with the passport unique ID (PUID) for events performed by users in SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange.
UserType Double The type of user that performed the operation.
0 = Regular
1 = Reserved
2 = Admin
3 = DcAdmin
4 = System
5 = Application
6 = ServicePrincipal
7 = CustomPolicy
8 = SystemPolicy