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Tankwell-6822 asked ZhengqiLou-MSFT commented

Exchange messge tracking attachments

Hey all,

We have configured exchange 2013 message tracking logs, and also searching them in third party logging system.

We do search for a flag in the message tracking log that indicates that the message containes external files (attachments), in order to know how many times our users send emails with attachments (we know It happen on a daily basis but we can not evaluate how many times a day that happen...)

Is such flag exists? what can I do to understand that better?

I will be glad for help

Tankwell

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AndyDavid answered

Not in message tracking.
You could use a transportt rule:
https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/how-to-track-attachments-in-exchange-2013/

But message tracking only shows message size which includes the attachment. You could look for messages over a certain size and use that to estimate they sent an attachment

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ZhengqiLou-MSFT answered ZhengqiLou-MSFT commented

Hi @Tankwell-6822 ,

Agree with Andy, the message tracking will only detect the message size while that didn't care about the attachments.

The transport rule maybe a good idea.
Consider we could send an email to a specific user if someone sends a message with attachments and then count the total email received, or apply some marks or annoucements in the email to search.

Best regards,
Lou


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Hi @Tankwell-6822 ,

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