Exchange Server’s audit function is asynchronous. Which makes sense for Exchange but causes security analysts heartburn who have to “wait in faith”. The good news is that you can see the status of those audit requests via a PowerShell cmdlet, but the bad news is that only Exchange 2013 supports it. In Exchange 2013, you can retrieve a list of current audit log searches with the Get-AuditLogSearch cmdlet.

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