Information Event - Mailbox audit policy applied (25100) how to monitor with email alert

[bob]

That event ID 25100 pops up in the Event Viewer on your Windows Server when a mailbox audit policy gets slapped onto an account. It's just an info log, nothing scary, telling you that the policy kicked in to track changes like who logs in or tweaks the mailbox. You see it under the Microsoft-Windows-Exchange something logs, but basically, it's Exchange keeping tabs on security stuff without drama. I run into it all the time when admins tweak user permissions, and it logs the details like which mailbox and when it happened. Without it, you'd miss if policies aren't sticking right, leading to blind spots in audits. But hey, it's helpful for spotting if everything's running smooth.

You want to monitor this with an email alert? Easy peasy through the Event Viewer itself. Fire up Event Viewer on your server, hunt down that 25100 event in the logs. Right-click the log source, pick Create Custom View, filter for event ID 25100. Then attach a task to it that triggers on match. In the task setup, point it to sendmail.exe or whatever basic email tool Windows has baked in, filling in your SMTP details and recipient. Schedule it to run only when that event fires, so you get pinged right away. I do this for quick heads-ups without fussing over code.

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At the end here is the automatic email solution.

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