Showing posts with label enable audit logs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label enable audit logs. Show all posts

12 November, 2012

How to enable the audit log in SharePoint 2013

To enable the audit log by using Central Administration

·         On the Central Administration home page,
·         In the Application Management section,
·         Click Manage service applications.
·         Select the Secure Store service application.
·         On the ribbon, click Properties.
·         From the Enable Audit section,
·         Click to select the Audit log enabled box.
·         To change the number of days that entries will be purged from the audit log file, specify a number in days in the Days until Purge field.
·         The default value is 30 days.
·         Click OK.

Configure audit settings for a site collection

Please use the following link in which Microsoft has given a very detailed description that references each and every minor point regarding audit settings:

It consists of:
·         Auditing event information
·         Trimming the audit logs (new enhancements in SP2010 and SP2013 as compare to earlier versions)
·         Configure audit log trimming
·         Configure events to audit


View audit log reports
Following link will help you to understand the following points:
·         Events available for audit log reports
·         Available audit log reports
·         View audit log reports


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