Toss in Lync client in the mix and you will also see it communicating with EWS.
To get a complete list of what us using your Exchange servers EWS you have to look in the IIS-logs. Your buddy here is the good old logpaser which can be found here LogParser 2.2 download.
Copy the IIS logfiles you want to analyze into a folder of your choice. Start a command prompt and run:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Log Parser 2.2\LogParser.exe" "SELECT cs(User-Agent) as UserAgent, count(*) as hits FROM "path to iis logfiles" WHERE cs-uri-stem LIKE '/EWS/Exchange.asmx' AND cs-username GROUP BY UserAgent" –I:IISW3C
Output will show the UserAgent and number of corresponding hits.
You can add “-O:tsv > outputfilename.txt” at the end of the logparser query to save the output in a tab separated text file for easier reading.
You can also run the logparser query in LogParserStudio. You see here that there is a number of different clients using EWs and they also have different patch levels. UserAgent OC/15 is Lync 2013 client and OC/4 is Lync 2010 client.
ExchangeServicesClient is an appl. made by EWS managed API.
You might also find other UserAgents in there such as “Sipe/1.18.2” or “Evolution/3.10.2”.
You might want to stop them from accessing EWS, how is this done?
If you have configured your LoadBalancer to do Layer 7 inspection you probably could stop these UserAgents but a much easier way is to do this.
Configure some properties on the Organization object.
First have a look of current and default configuration. We see here that by default everyone is allowed to communicate with EWS
Get-OrganizationConfig | fl EWS*
EwsAllowEntourage :
EwsAllowList :
EwsAllowMacOutlook :
EwsAllowOutlook :
EwsApplicationAccessPolicy :
EwsBlockList :
EwsEnabled :
How do you stop certain clients or only allow some?
Set the EwsApplicationAccessPolicy parameter to either EnforceAllowList or EnforceBlockList and then us the EwsBlockList or EwsAllowList which is an array of UserAgent (case sensitive) of the applications. You must also set the Enable EwsEnabled parameter to true to get this to work.
So there is actually a way to allow only certain applications to communicate with EWS. have a look at the Set-OrganizationConfig cmdlet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997443(v=exchg.150).aspx
