Journaling in Exchange 2016 is pretty much unchanged from Exchange 2010, but it is still a crucial feature for many organizations worldwide as it helps respond to legal, regulatory, and organizational compliance requirements by recording all or specific email messages. Exchange provides two types of journaling:
- Standard journaling is configured on a mailbox database and journals all messages sent to and from mailboxes located on that database.
- Premium journaling provides more granular journaling by using journal rules. Instead of journaling every single email sent or received by all mailboxes in a database, you can restrict journaling based on recipients or members of distribution groups, and scope (internal, external, or all messages). Premium journaling requires an Exchange Enterprise Client Access License (CAL).
In both journaling methods, a journal...
