How to Perform Message Trace in Office 365

Hi Everyone this is Prem, I have worked as Microsoft 365 support ambassador. In this blog I will share How to Perform Message Trace in Office 365.


Message trace can be performed from the Exchange Admin Center and from the PowerShell as well.


We will talk about how to perform Message trace from the Exchange Admin Center.


Steps to perform Message trace:

Go to Exchange Admin Center, direct link: https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/

Sign in with your Global admin or Exchange admin account, once logged in it should look like this:


How to Perform Message Trace in Office 365


Click on Mail flow drop down > then click on Message trace:


How to Perform Message Trace in Office 365


Once you click on Start a trace it should open a window form the right:


How to Perform Message Trace in Office 365


Here you can provide sender and/or recipient details and perform a search by clicking on Summary report under Report type.


You can provide date range as well by sliding the slider.


If you select Enhanced summary report or Extended report option the result will be generated in the csv and it will take time to create the file while the Summary report option provides the results instantly.


If you increase the Time range to more than 10 days it will automatically switch to Extended report.


If you don’t provide Sender, Recipient and Time range and perform a search it will show you all the emails sent and received for the entire organization for the past 2 Days.


This is what a blank search result look like(Results will be different for your organization):