Set-UMAutoAttendant Exchange cmdlet issued (25465) how to monitor with email alert

[bob]

You know that event in Windows Server Event Viewer, the one called "Set-UMAutoAttendant Exchange cmdlet issued" with ID 25465? It pops up whenever someone runs a command to tweak the auto attendant in Exchange's unified messaging setup. Basically, it's logging that exact moment an admin changes stuff like greetings or call flows for those automated phone systems. I see it fire off during maintenance, or if someone's messing with voicemail routing. The details in the event include who did it, from which computer, and the exact time stamp. It even notes the parameters used in the command, so you can trace back what got altered. Without this log, you'd be blind to those sneaky changes that could mess up your phone tree. I always check it after updates, just to make sure nothing weird happened.

Now, if you want to monitor this thing with an email alert, fire up Event Viewer on your server. Right-click on the Custom Views folder and make a new one, filtering just for that 25465 ID under the Microsoft-Windows-Exchange something logs. It'll show you only those hits. To get alerts, you attach a task to it right from there. I do this all the time for key events. Select the event, hit Create Task, and set it to trigger on that specific log entry. For the action, pick Start a Program, and point it to something simple like a mail sender tool you have installed. Schedule it to run right when the event drops, and boom, you'll get pinged via email if anyone touches the auto attendant.

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Note, the PowerShell email alert code was moved to this post.