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Change Auditor 7.5 - User Guide

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Auditing and agent considerations

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Auditing and agent considerations

When auditing Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID, keep the following in mind:

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Occasionally duplicate auditing events are produced. This can occur when a service disruption requires that Microsoft administrators replay database transaction files to ensure that no events are lost. Change Auditor removes duplicated events that come in at the same time, but if an event that has already been sent to our database is sent again from Microsoft 365 it is displayed as a duplicate.
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By default. auditing settings that have been previously configured in the tenant for Exchange Online by third-party software are overwritten by the auditing setting specified in the Microsoft 365 template when the configuration is applied. You can, however, select to not overwrite the tenant settings.
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Change Auditor collects Microsoft's audit logs, and as a result the events and details reported are limited to what these logs provide.
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Change Auditor checks for new Microsoft Entra events every 15 minutes and for new Microsoft 365 events every 5 minutes.
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You can create multiple Microsoft Entra or Microsoft 365 templates to monitor multiple tenants; however, you must select a different agent for each template. A single agent cannot monitor multiple tenants. A single agent can audit both Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365 against the same tenant.
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If your organization uses a proxy server to connect to the internet, you must configure the Proxy Server settings on the Agent Configuration page to audit Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365 targets.
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The following URLs must be accessible for cloud auditing to be fully functional:
 
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https://login.microsoftonline.com
https://graph.microsoft.com
https://outlook.office365.com
https://manage.office.com
https://login.microsoftonline.com
https://graph.microsoft.com
https://outlook.office365.com
https://manage-gcc.office.com
https://login.microsoftonline.us
https://graph.microsoft.us
https://outlook.office365.us
https://manage.office365.us

Auditing in synchronized environments

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Auditing in synchronized environments

Microsoft allows you to map identities between on-premises applications and cloud services. This is done by synchronizing your on-premises directories with Microsoft Entra ID using a Microsoft synchronization tool. When auditing Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Entra ID in this synchronized environment, Change Auditor provides extra event details by mapping identities.

The following conditions must be met for Change Auditor to perform the mapping:

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Synchronization performed with Microsoft Entra Connect.
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Microsoft Entra Connect synchronization process is active in your on-premises environment and directory sync is active in your cloud environment.
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Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Entra auditing template has been created to audit your online environment that is being synchronized with the on-premises Active Directory.
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The agent that is specified in the auditing template must be a member server of the forest being synchronized with Microsoft Entra ID.
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NOTE: When synchronizing multiple forests into a single tenant, Change Auditor only provides additional information for the identities in the forest where an agent performing the Microsoft 365 auditing is installed.

When Federation with AD FS is used as the single sign-on method, Microsoft Entra logon events will no longer be generated since the authentication is done by the on-premises AD FS instance.

Upgrading Change Auditor

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Upgrading Change Auditor

As of Change Auditor 7.2.0, Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365 auditing templates will require MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library) for authentication. New templates will no longer support basic authentication. Also, certificate authentication will now be required for web applications associated with Microsoft 365 auditing templates. See Managing Microsoft 365 templates for details.

When you upgrade from Change Auditor version 7.0.3 or earlier:

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Microsoft Graph API permissions must be applied on the web application associated with any existing Microsoft Entra and Microsoft 365 auditing templates for auditing to continue. For the list of required permissions see Edit a Microsoft Entra auditing template and Edit a Microsoft 365 auditing template.

To apply the updated permissions, edit any existing templates and select the option to create a new web application to associate with it. The new web application will be created with the required permissions and auditing will continue.

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NOTE: Alternately, you can update the existing web application associated with the template by adding the required permissions directly on the web application in the Microsoft Entra admin center. See Edit a Microsoft Entra auditing template and Edit a Microsoft 365 auditing template for the list of required permissions. Once the permissions have been updated, restart the agent service for the new permissions to be applied immediately and auditing will continue.

When you upgrade from Change Auditor version 6.9.0 or earlier:

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Previously created Exchange Online auditing templates are deleted and will no longer display in the client.
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Agents previously assigned to audit Exchange Online stop auditing the Microsoft 365 Exchange Online tenant.
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NOTE: You can still search and report on previously captured events. All legacy events are shown in either the Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Mailbox facility or the Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Administration facility.
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The Shared\Built-In\Exchange Online search folder is only available if it contained previously created Exchange Online custom searches.
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To capture sign-in risk events, you need to create a new template and select the Sign-ins option. These events are not captured automatically by an existing Microsoft Entra template.
To capture new events with Microsoft 365 and avoid losing any audited activities, after an upgrade:
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Upgrade existing agents to the latest version.
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Create an Microsoft 365 auditing template and configure Exchange Online auditing.

 

Configuring Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID auditing

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Configuring Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID auditing

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Managing Microsoft 365 templates
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Managing Microsoft Entra templates
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Considerations

 

 

 

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