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Change Auditor for SharePoint 7.0.2 - Event Reference Guide

Introduction

Change Auditor for SharePoint provides centralized auditing, including configuration, event collection and reporting, for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2013 servers and farms. It audits all activity related to:

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Documents - including check-ins/check-outs, additions, deletions, access (viewed), content or metadata updates, renames, moves, and restores.
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Folders - including additions, deletions, moves, renames, restores, and updates.
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Document Libraries and Lists - including additions, deletions, renames, and restores.
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List Items - including additions, deletions, updates, and restores.
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Permissions and Security Groups - including changes to permission levels, permission inheritances, and security groups.
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Sites and Site Collections - including creations, deletions, and moves.

In addition to real-time event auditing, you can also enable SharePoint event logging to capture SharePoint events locally in a Windows event log. This event log can then be collected using Quest InTrust to satisfy long-term storage requirements.

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NOTE: SharePoint auditing and event logging are only available when you have licensed Change Auditor for SharePoint and have applied a SharePoint Auditing template that defines the SharePoint farm and paths to audit. Contact your Sales Representative for more information on obtaining Change Auditor for SharePoint.

Change Auditor for SharePoint also tracks, audits, reports, and alerts on changes to Microsoft SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business that impact your environment. For information on the audited events, see the Office 365 and Azure Active Directory Event Reference Guide.

This guide lists the events that can be captured by Change Auditor for SharePoint. Separate event reference guides are provided that list the core Change Auditor events (when any Change Auditor license is applied) and the events captured when the different auditing modules are licensed.

Change Auditor for SharePoint Events

Change Auditor for SharePoint tracks, audits, reports, and alerts on changes to SharePoint Server 2010 or 2013 configuration and permissions changes as well as document stores and lists.

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NOTE: For Change Auditor to capture some SharePoint events, you must enable Native Auditing and/or Versioning within SharePoint. See SharePoint Event Requirements for a list of the events that require these SharePoint settings to be enabled.

This section lists the audited events captured by Change Auditor for SharePoint. They are listed in alphabetical order by facility:

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SharePoint Document Library
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SharePoint Farm
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SharePoint Folder
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SharePoint List
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SharePoint List Item
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SharePoint Permission
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SharePoint Security Group
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SharePoint Site
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SharePoint Site Collection

SharePoint Document

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IMPORTANT: When expecting large numbers of events, it may be necessary to increase the Max Events per Connection setting in the client (Agent Configuration on the Administration Tasks tab) to avoid an ever-increasing backlog of events waiting to be sent from the agent to the coordinator database.
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NOTE: To view a complete list of all the events, open the Audit Events page on the Administration Tasks tab. This page contains a list of all the events available for auditing. It also displays the facility to which the event belongs, the severity assigned to each event, if the event is enabled or disabled, and the type of license that is required to capture each event.
 
 
Table 1. SharePoint Document events
Event
Description
Severity

All document versions deleted

Created when all versions of a document are deleted from the SharePoint platform.

Medium

Document added

Created when a document is added to the SharePoint platform.

Medium

Document check out canceled

Created when a document check out is canceled.

Medium

Document checked in

Created when a previously checked out document is checked back in.

Medium

Document checked out

Created when a document is checked out for editing.

Medium

Document deleted

Created when a document is deleted from the SharePoint platform.

Medium

Document metadata updated

Created when the metadata defined for a document is updated. (Disabled by default.)

Medium

Document moved

Created when a document is moved to a different location within the SharePoint platform.

NOTE: ‘Move’ and ‘Rename’ events are only captured when using the ‘Open with Explorer’ ribbon feature within the Document Library (Library tab).

Medium

Document renamed

Created when a document is renamed.

NOTE: ‘Move’ and ‘Rename’ events are only captured when using the ‘Open with Explorer’ ribbon feature within the Document Library (Library tab).

Medium

Document restored from recycle bin

Created when a previously deleted document is restored from the recycle bin.

Medium

Document updated

Created when the contents of a document is updated.

Medium

Document version deleted

Created when a version of a document is deleted from the SharePoint platform.

Medium

Document viewed

Created when a document stored in SharePoint is viewed.

Medium

SharePoint Document Library

 
Table 2. SharePoint Document Library events
Event
Description
Severity

Document library added

Created when a document library is added to the SharePoint® platform.

Medium

Document library deleted (empty)

Created when a document library that is empty is deleted from the SharePoint platform.

Medium

Document library deleted (with contents)

Created when a document library and all of its contents are deleted from the SharePoint platform.

Medium

Document library renamed

Created when a document library is renamed.

NOTE: ‘Move’ and ‘Rename’ events are only captured when using the ‘Open with Explorer’ ribbon feature within the Document Library (Library tab).

Medium

Document library restored from recycle bin

Created when a previously deleted document library is restored from the recycle bin.

Medium

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