File Access Auditing on Exchange 2003 Server

From: Jimmy (Jimmy_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/28/05


Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:01:04 -0700

Our company has an Exchange 2003 SP1 server runs on Windows 2003 Std. It will
update to SP1 in a few weeks. The server also does file sharing for all our
40+ users.

We want to enable auditing to keep track of read/write activities on the
file shares. I did attempt turn on Success/Failure of Object Access in Local
Security Policy. I didn't turn on auditing on any File System yet. Then I
discovered a lot of Exchange object access (ID 562) were tracked in security
log. Size increase is more than 6MB for merely an hour. That makes auditing
impractical to implement.

Did I do anything wrong on the setup or this is a necessary evil of auditing
on E2K3?

Jimmy



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