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Essential SharePoint 2007, 2nd Edition
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Essential SharePoint 2007, 2nd Edition

by Jeff Webb
September 2007
Beginner content levelBeginner
448 pages
10h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Auditing Activity

SharePoint and IIS keep logs of user activity and server events. You can use those logs to get reports on site usage, find out who made changes at specific times, and diagnose problems on the server.

To enable reporting on general site usage:

  1. Navigate to the Central Administration site.

  2. Click Operations and then click "Usage analysis processing" under the Logging and Reporting heading.

  3. Select "Enable logging" and specify an easy-to-find folder. By default, SharePoint stores logfiles in the application folder, but it is more convenient to put all of the logfiles together in a single folder for each web application.

  4. Click "Enable usage analysis processing," select a time to process the information, and click OK.

If you are using MOSS, you should also enable advanced usage logging. To do that:

  1. Click the Shared Services site link in the Central Administration site.

  2. Click "Usage reporting" under the Office SharePoint Usage Reporting heading.

  3. Select "Enable advanced usage analysis processing" and click OK.

The usage analysis reports are not available until after they are processed. Once they are complete, you can view usage data for the 30 days of history. To view usage reports in WSS:

  • Click Site Action → Site Settings, and then click "Site usage report" under the Site Administration heading.

To view usage reports in MOSS:

  1. Click Site Action → Site Settings → Modify All Site Settings, and then click "Site usage report" under the Site Administration heading.

  2. For more detailed information, ...

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