Re: Can you audit file access within Sharepoint Services 3.0?

No, you can't enable it with Windows Explorer nor can you enable it with any out of the box stsadm command.

I'm not too familiar with SCOM but I don't believe that has anything to allow you to view the logs. Maybe one of the SharePoint-specific management tools from Quest Software or AvePoint allows you to view those logs but I haven't checked.

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Bart X. Tubalinal
www.deviantpoint.com

"Mygposts" <Mygposts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:92B7549F-AE7B-4AAA-9547-24B05E277088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can you browse through Windows Explorer to the document library and enable
auditing with the built in Windows Server tools and monitor the built-in
Windows security event logs?
Is there a separate Microsoft tool such as SCOM or a third party tool that
creates an interface to view audit logs for WSS 3.0 if you do enable logging
via the command line?

"Bart Tubalinal" wrote:

I just realized that you were asking about WSS 3.0 and not MOSS. MOSS offers
an interface to turn on/off auditing; WSS 3.0 doesn't. The mechanism is
there in WSS to have auditing but you'll actually need to write code to turn
it on. And once you've got it turned on, there's no interface for you to
view the audit records so you'd have to build that as well.

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Bart X. Tubalinal
www.deviantpoint.com

"Bart Tubalinal" <bart.tubalinal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:F1F8F023-D5F1-4FFE-86B5-ABD61D0FC77B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yes, you can either enable auditing at the site collection level (In > the
> Site Collection Settings page) or you can create an Information > Management
> Policy for specific lists/libraries to enable auditing at a more > granular
> level. This can be found in the List or Document Library Settings page.
> Both of these auditing settings allows you to audit when an item was
> accessed (opened, downloaded, viewed, edited, moved, etc).
>
> Note that I found that turning on auditing can quickly fill up your
> database and there's no out of the box management page in SharePoint > that
> will allow you to purge those audit logs. You'd have to write custom > code
> (or there might be some 3rd party tools out there) to purge them.
> -- > Bart X. Tubalinal
> www.deviantpoint.com
>
> "Mygposts" <Mygposts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C6C868A1-0C2A-45E9-AD28-5073E436BD05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> We would like to post some very confidential HR and financial >> documents
>> on
>> WSS in as secure a manner as possible.
>> We are going to set up SSL with automatic redirection of the HTTP URL >> to
>> HTTPS by redirecting through IIS. Is there anything else we can >> easily
>> do to
>> increase security and auditing of access?
>>
>> It seems that you can open a read-only copy without using the check >> out
>> process and you are only required to check out when editing and I >> don't
>> know
>> if that kind of access is logged,
>>
>> I know you can adjust the permissions of documents within Sharepoint, >> but
>> can you audit and log reports of access of those who do have access
>> showing
>> when documents were accessed and by whom?
>>
>


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