Enable-MailUser Exchange cmdlet issued (25153) how to monitor with email alert

[bob]

You ever notice how Windows Server keeps a diary of everything happening in the background? That event you're asking about, the one called "Enable-MailUser Exchange cmdlet issued" with ID 25153, it's basically the system jotting down when somebody flips the switch to activate email access for a user in Exchange. I mean, picture this: an admin types in a command to make sure a person's mailbox lights up and starts receiving stuff. The server catches that action right away and stamps it into the Event Viewer logs under the security or application channels, depending on your setup. It's got details like who did it, from which machine, and the exact time, so you can trace back if something fishy pops up. And yeah, it only fires off if auditing is turned on for those Exchange admin moves, otherwise it stays quiet. But when it does log, it's precise-shows the user account getting enabled, any parameters used, and even if it succeeded or glitched out.

Monitoring that thing for alerts isn't rocket science, you just poke around in Event Viewer. Fire up the app on your server, right-click the log where these events hide, usually in Applications and Services Logs under Microsoft Exchange. Filter it down to event ID 25153, and you'll see them pop. To get emails zipping to you when it happens, attach a task to it through the viewer itself. Select the filter, hit create task from the actions pane, and set it to trigger on that specific event. Then, in the task settings, point it to run a simple program that shoots off an email-nothing fancy, just use the built-in mailto or whatever your setup allows. Test it by forcing an enable command in a safe spot, and boom, your inbox dings. Keeps you in the loop without staring at screens all day.

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At the end here is the automatic email solution.

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