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Change Auditor for SharePoint 7.4 - User Guide

SharePoint Searches and Reports

Introduction

You can search, report and alert on SharePoint activity, such as changes to SharePoint configurations, security, and documents. Using the search capabilities of Change Auditor, you can retrieve SharePoint events for multiple site collections and farms or for an individual SharePoint farm, site, path, or object.

 

Create custom SharePoint searches

The following scenarios explain how to use the What tab to create custom SharePoint searches.

The Origin is not available for SharePoint events.

NOTE: Selecting the Private folder creates a search that only you can run and view, whereas selecting the Shared folder creates a search which can be run and viewed by all users.
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Click New to enable the Search Properties tabs across the bottom of the Searches page.
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Open the What tab, expand Add and select Subsystem | SharePoint.
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Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.
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Click New to enable the Search Properties tabs across the bottom of the Searches page.
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Open the What tab, expand Add and select Subsystem | SharePoint.
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Selecting This Object enables the selection controls on this dialog, which includes a hierarchical display (left pane) and a wildcard expression pane (right pane).
To search SharePoint farms using a wildcard expression, select the check box next to the Farm Name in the right pane. Select the operator (Like or Not Like) and enter the string of characters to use to find SharePoint farms.
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Once you have selected the SharePoint farm to include in the search definition, click Add to add it to the Selection list at the bottom of the dialog.
NOTE: Select the Exclude the Above Selection(s) check box if you want to search for changes to all SharePoint farms EXCEPT those listed in the ‘what’ list.
NOTE: Select the Runtime Prompt check box on this dialog to prompt for a SharePoint object every time the search is run.
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Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.
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Click New to enable the Search Properties tabs across the bottom of the Searches page.
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Open the What tab, expand Add and select Subsystem | SharePoint.
Select the SharePoint components to include in your search: Farm Name, Web Name, List Name, Item Name and/or Item URL.

For example, to search all web application sites that begin with ‘Admin’ for documents that contain ‘procedure’ in their name:

Select (check) Web Name and specify: Like Admin*
Select (check) Item Name and specify: Like *procedure*

For example, to search for all documents that begin with ‘Sales’ in a SharePoint farm:

From the wildcard expression pane, select Item Name check box and specify: Like Sales*
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After entering the wildcard expressions to use, click Add to add it to the Selection list at the bottom of the dialog.
NOTE: Select the Exclude the Above Selection(s) check box if you want to search for changes to all SharePoint sites EXCEPT those listed in the ‘what’ list.
NOTE: Select the Runtime Prompt check box on this dialog to prompt for a SharePoint path every time the search is run.
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Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.
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Click New to enable the Search Properties tabs across the bottom of the Searches page.
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Open the What tab, expand Add with Events and select Subsystem | SharePoint.
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On the Add SharePoint Paths dialog, select a path from the list and click Add to add it to the selection list at the bottom of the page.
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Click OK to save your selection and close the dialog.

 

Manually Add and Deploy the Change Auditor SharePoint Solution

The procedure provided in this section explains how to manually add the Change Auditor SharePoint Solution to the SharePoint Solution Store and deploy the solution to web applications.

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On the server that is running Microsoft SharePoint 2016/2019 Products, open a SharePoint PowerShell management shell (Start | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2016/2019 Products | SharePoint 2016/2019 Management Shell).
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Open the SharePoint Central Administration web site (Start | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2016/2019 Products | SharePoint 2016/2019 Administration).
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Deploy When - select one of the following options: Now or At a specified time
Deploy To - select to deploy globally to all web applications or to an individual web application if you have specified a web application in the PowerShell cmdlet when you added the solution to the solution store
Click OK to save your selections and close the Deploy Solution page.
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Once successfully deployed, the Status column for the Change Auditor SharePoint Solution displays Deployed as shown below.

 

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