Re: Auditing in Sharepoint

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From: Steve Smith (steve_at_combined-knowledge.com)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:40:37 -0000

Hi Manny ,

I have done a quick look into this and like you have not been able to find a
tool that does what you are after. Hopefully someone else out there knows of
such a tool.

Steve

"Manny Borges" <MannyBorges@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C3EEFE8-C03D-4650-9CB7-EE6B5712426F@microsoft.com...
> Hi Steve and Pablo,
>
> I looked at the tool you mentioned it seems more of a usage auditing tool.
I
> think Pablo may be searching for the same thing that I have been searching
> for, a tool to document security settings and permissions.
>
> I know in my security audits I usually don't much pay attention to who is
> actually getting to documents, but who possibly could get to documents.
None
> of the tools I have seen addresses this need.
>
> Not that usage tracking is not important, it is. But personally I have a
> massive site with multinational contributors and ::sigh:: administrators.
> This makes security a nightmare. A good tool to list out security as well
as
> usage would be great.
>
>
> "Steve Smith" wrote:
>
> > Hi Paul , Syntergy do an auditing tool
> >
> > http://www.syntergy.com/sharepoint/products/current/audit/index.html
> >
> > you could add a Workflow add in that also supports an audit trail such
as
> > LMR solutions
> >
> > http://www.lmrsolutions.com
> >
> > You can also get a certain amount of auditing by turning on your IIS
logging
> > on you web front end servers. You can audit many functions from IIS logs
> > such as deletion from the logs it just takes a bit of configuring and
> > filtering to find the stuff. By sending your logs to SQL and using a
tool
> > like crystal reports this could be good enough for you.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> >
> > Steve Smith
> >
> >
> > "pablo" <pablo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:B5E0F102-ECEE-40C3-8967-6237D9874CED@microsoft.com...
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > My understanding of the auditing that Sharepoint provides out of the
box
> > is
> > > that there is none.
> > >
> > > Can any one recommend any third party products that would allow us to
> > better
> > > audit Sharepoint or has Microsoft any plans to provide auditing
facilities
> > in
> > > future releases.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> >
> >

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