Exchange Change Reporter

Without argument, Microsoft Exchange is the number one component for many organizations. Even one hour of e-mail downtime can cost millions of dollars to businesses and damage company credibility. Auditing changes to configuration parameters in Exchange environments is critical to ensure reliable e-mail operation and regulatory compliance. Exchange servers, mailboxes, information stores, permissions-virtually all kinds of objects must be routinely monitored to detect unauthorized changes, and a full audit trail should be kept for compliance and security incident investigation purposes.

NetWrix Exchange Change Reporter is a tool for Exchange environments that reports changes made to all Exchange Server configurations and permissions and that generates daily reports with a full list of created, deleted, and modified objects. Four basic questions are answered: What changed? How was it changed? Who did it? When? Daily reports list changes made to Exchange configurations: setting changes, creation and deletion of mailboxes, information stores, servers, connectors, protocol parameters, storage groups, permission changes-everything. All reports include original and new values ("before" and "after") for all modified settings.

Features and benefits:

• Bird's eye view of day-to-day Exchange administrative activities to track security policy violations.
• Auditing and reporting of all changes to Exchange objects and permissions for security and compliance - Download report sample.
• Detection of unauthorized and unplanned changes caused by excessively delegated rights.

The "Who changed it?" field is not available for some types of changes on Exchange 2003,