Unified Audit Log Retention, Licensing and Missing Logs
What Microsoft 365 and Entra ID logs keep, for how long, on which licence, and what a BEC investigation cannot see when a source is missing or disabled.
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What Microsoft 365 and Entra ID logs keep, for how long, on which licence, and what a BEC investigation cannot see when a source is missing or disabled.
How to analyze Entra ID sign-in logs in a BEC case: key fields, error codes, impossible travel and its false positives, spray, MFA fatigue, legacy auth.
How AiTM phishing steals Microsoft 365 sessions despite MFA, and how to detect the token replay in Entra ID sign-in logs and the Unified Audit Log.
Walkthrough: load a Purview audit export and Entra sign-in logs into M365 Forensics, then read the verdict, findings, timeline and remediation list.
Step-by-step export of the Purview Unified Audit Log and Entra ID sign-in and audit logs for a BEC case: roles, row limits, PowerShell paging, pitfalls.