

Practical application of message tracking It takes some time before search request even starts to be processed. Searching for emails older than ten days might take up to a few hours. Messages less than 4 hours old might not be available. Can be increased (or decreased.)ġ0 days for easily accessible message trace, 90 days for “Historical Search” – where results can only be viewed in a downloadable CSV file.Īll data about messages is available as soon as they are sent or received. PowerShell, alternatively - a text editor.Ĭonfigurable, by default 1000 MB for all message tracking log files in the set directory.īy default, 30 days before the oldest files are overwritten. Differences between message tracking logs and Office 365 Message tracing The most important one is that message tracking logs are simple text files you can access directly and copy for backup purposes, but also – delete manually. There are a few significant differences between message tracking logs in the on-prem Exchange and message tracking in Office 365. If a message is sent to more than one recipient, it will display once for every recipient in the message trace search, but all those entries will have the same Message ID and different Message Trace ID

As emails travel through Office 365, some information about them gets stored in logs and is available for administrative purposes. Message tracking, or message tracing, as it is called in Office 365, is one of the most basic tools used by administrators to monitor the email flow.
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UPDATE This article was updated on October 14, 2021
