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Journaling is a compliance feature that allows an organization to capture a copy of all messages that satisfies a criteria.

Journaling on Exchange 2016 is performed by a journaling agent which intercepts a copy of messages as they pass through the transport pipeline.

The journaling is divided to two types as following:

• Standard journaling:
  
  • Apply to mailbox database level.
    
  • Capture all mail going to or from the mailboxes within database.
    
• Premium journaling:
  
  • Apply according journal rules.
    
  • Requires an Enterprise Client Access License.
    

Journal rules have three components:

• Journal scope: which messages to be captured (Internal, External or All messages)
  
• Journal recipient: which mailbox that you want to journal.
  
• Journal mailbox: to which mailbox the journal reports will be sent.
  

To configure journaling that can be done as below steps:

• Open EAC > Compliance management > Journal rules > add
  

  
  

• Then you should specify the three component as below:
  
  • Send journal reports to: Journal mailbox.
    
  • If the message is sent to or received from: Journal recipient
    
  • Journal the following messages: Journal scope.
    

  
  

The journal rules can be defined using exchange management shell with command “New-JournalRule” as below:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125242(v=exchg.160).aspx

Ratish Nair

Microsoft MVP | Office Servers and Services

Team @MSExchangeGuru

Posted October 26th, 2017 under Exchange 2016, Tips. RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback.