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  • 1.  MS Exchange Logs and Wincollect - Unknown message

    Posted Mon February 15, 2021 06:32 PM
    Hi Community,

    I configured Wincollect to retrieve OWA logs from MS Exchange and send to QRadar. It works fine and I get them in my QRadar. However, it displays all messages as Unknown Exchange Message after I created a Log Source of type Exchange. DSM and Custom Properties Package are updated.

    Here an example

    <13>Feb 15 23:21:50 ExchangeXYZ AgentDevice=MicrosoftExchange	AgentLogFile=file.log	PluginVersion=7.3.0.41	AgentLogFormat=W3C	AgentLogProtocol=OWA	date=2021-02-15	time=22:21:46	s-ip=y.y.y..y	cs-method=POST	cs-uri-stem=/EWS/Exchange.asmx	cs-uri-query=&CorrelationID=<empty>;&cafeReqId=cbe38615-7d78-47a5-8017-1bc6fc860753;	s-port=443	cs-username=blahblha	c-ip=x.x.x.x	cs(User-Agent)=AppleExchangeWebServices/814+Mail/3654.60.0.2.21	cs(Referer)=-	sc-status=200	sc-substatus=0	sc-win32-status=0	time-taken=14


    Thank you!

    Regards,
    Bruno

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  • 2.  RE: MS Exchange Logs and Wincollect - Unknown message

    Posted Tue February 16, 2021 11:10 AM
    Hello Bruno,

    You sample event is missing some fields necessary for the Exchange DSM to properly set the Event ID. For the W3C format, it's looking for a "cs-version" field and if not found it falls back to "s-sitename". The value taken from one of these fields is then paired with the "cs-method" field to form a compound Event ID like so:

    <cs-version or s-sitename>::<cs-method>

    because your sample event has neither cs-version or s-sitename, the DSM cannot produce a complete Event ID and is rejecting the event. I'm not sure why they aren't there, presumably they are not included in the actual log file being monitored, which may require a change to logging configuration.

    Cheers
    Colin

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    COLIN HAY
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  • 3.  RE: MS Exchange Logs and Wincollect - Unknown message

    Posted Wed February 17, 2021 06:16 AM
    HI Colin,

    thank you for the quick reply. I will talk to our sysadmin and ask him to check the logging configuration..


    Regards,
    Bruno

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  • 4.  RE: MS Exchange Logs and Wincollect - Unknown message

    Posted Wed February 17, 2021 12:18 PM
    mein brain lernt nicht dank rfid. brauche ihre mails nicht tschö

    Von meinem iPhone gesendet





  • 5.  RE: MS Exchange Logs and Wincollect - Unknown message

    Posted Wed February 17, 2021 01:27 PM
    Ich habe Ihre Nachricht nicht verstanden.

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