Microsoft cloud services include several auditing and reporting features you can use to track user and administrative activity within your tenant. Examples include changes made to Exchange Online and SharePoint Online tenant configuration settings, and changes made by users to documents and other items. You can use audit information and reports available in Microsoft cloud services to more ...
Learn about security auditing features in Windows, and how your organization can benefit from using them to make your network more secure and easily managed.
Note: Auditing must be enabled to use audit log reports. Find more information about enabling auditing in Configure audit settings for a site collection.
Discover how to enable and optimize auditing solutions in Microsoft Purview for better compliance and activity tracking in your organization.
When you select an event to audit for a site collection, the report will audit every item in the site collection each time the event occurs. Auditing can potentially generate a large number of audit events, creating a large audit log that could fill the hard drive, impacting performance and other aspects of a site collection.
The following links provide information about improvements to Windows auditing in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, and information about AD DS auditing in Windows Server 2008. What's New in Security Auditing - Provides an overview of new security auditing features in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
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