Elevation of Exchange admin privilege Alerts

[Adrian Hyde]

Does anyone else get these alerts?  From what I have been able to gather thus far, this BOXServiceAccount is used by Microsoft for management of the mailboxes and exchange servers.  What I haven't figured out is whether I should be concerned about these or what it means for our security footprint.

A low-severity alert has been triggered

Elevation of Exchange admin privilege

Severity: — Low

Time: 4/10/2018 1:26:11 PM (UTC)

Activity: GrantAdminPermission

User: BOXServiceAccount@namprd05.prod.outlook.com

Details: GrantAdminPermission. This alert is triggered whenever someone in your organization becomes an admin or gets new admin permissions.

[#2]

It looks like some server workflow, I'm almost certain we should not be getting such events. Reports it on the UPP network?

[#3 · Accepted solution]

I opened a support case, and was basically told it was safe to ignore since it is a back-end process. Unfortunately no additional details.

[#4]

Your answer is here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4039823/boxserviceaccount-is-added-to-a-role-in-office-365-...

Regards

[#5]

@Adrian Hyde 

Do you get any ideas about this at that time?

I already configured this privilege?

Severity  Low

Time Nov 12, 2019 12:15:00 PM

Activity Granted Exchange admin permission

Activity count 1 

Details

This alert is triggered when someone in your organization becomes an Exchange admin or gets new Exchange admin permissions -V1.0.0.1

By the time this alert was triggered,

email is hidden performed Granted Exchange admin permission 1 time