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Change Auditor 7.1.1 - Release Notes

VMware auditing

Table 27. VMware auditing requirements
Component
Supported versions

Change Auditor

Change Auditor (any license)

VMware

ESX/ESXi 5.0 to 6.0

vCenter 5.0 to 6.0

For more information

See the Change Auditor for VMWare User Guide.

SharePoint auditing

Table 28. SharePoint auditing requirements
Component
Supported versions

Change Auditor

Change Auditor for SharePoint

IMPORTANT: The Change Auditor for SharePoint module processes all activities happening on all site collections within the audited SharePoint farm. When auditing a large SharePoint farm with much activity, the Change Auditor agent may experience performance-related issues including slowness in loading the plugin, slowness in capturing events, or the potential for missed events. Factors that can impact Change Auditor performance include the number of site collections in the farm and the volume of activity taking place in the SharePoint environment. Quest recommends performing a test in an environment that is similar in size and configuration to determine if your farm is suitable to be audited by Change Auditor.

SharePoint

SharePoint Server 2010 SP2

SharePoint Server 2013 SP1

SharePoint Server 2016

SharePoint Server 2019

SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP2

SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1

Required rights and permissions

When selecting the agent to capture SharePoint events, you must enter the credentials to use to access the selected SharePoint farm. This account must have the following permissions:

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Local Administrator on the Change Auditor Agent\SharePoint Central Administration server
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SharePoint Farm Administrator
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The following mappings on the SQL Server that contains the SharePoint databases:
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SharePoint_Config
SharePoint_Shell_Access
SPDataAccess
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WSS_Content
SPDataAccess
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SharePoint_AdminContent
SPDataAccess

For more information

See the Change Auditor for SharePoint User Guide for detailed information about installing, configuring, and using Change Auditor for SharePoint.

Logon Activity auditing

Table 29. Logon Activity auditing requirements
Component
Supported versions

Change Auditor

Change Auditor for Logon Activity User license for auditing server agents

Change Auditor for Logon Activity Workstation license for auditing workstation agents

Change Auditor | Server agents

Change Auditor for Logon Activity User

NOTE: See Change Auditor agent (Server-side component).

Change Auditor | Workstation agents

Change Auditor for Logon Activity Workstation

For more information

See the Change Auditor for Logon Activity User Guide.

Skype for Business auditing

Table 30. Skype for Business auditing requirements
Components
Supported Versions

Change Auditor

Change Auditor for Skype for Business

NOTE: The Change Auditor for Lync license has been deprecated. You must obtain and import a new Change Auditor for Skype for Business license file to continue auditing Skype for Business.

Skype for Business

Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2015

Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2019

Microsoft Lync Server 2013

The SQL Server versions where the Central Management Store (CMS) is deployed
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP4
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP4
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP3
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Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP2
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Microsoft SQL Server 2017
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Microsoft SQL Server 2019
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Auditing is not supported on high availability and disaster recovery technologies such as SQL clusters and SQL Data mirroring.
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Encrypted databases are not supported.
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Due to some limitations on gathering logon information for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, the following information may not be captured: Who and Origin.

Required rights and permissions

Each Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2015 installation requires one template assigned to the agent running on the Central Management Store (CMS) SQL Server. Ensure that the credentials for the account specified when you create a template has the following permissions:

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Permission to open a connection to the CMS database.
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Read permissions on CMS tables and system tables.
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VIEW SERVER STATE permission.
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For SQL 2012 and later: CONTROL SERVER permission and ensure that the CMS database can be opened on the target server.

Additional requirements
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To audit changes to security setting stored in Active Directory agents must be deployed to Active Directory domain controllers.
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To audit changes to management data such as topology, configurations, and policies stored in the Central Management Store (CMS) database, agents must be deployed on the SQL server hosting the CMS.
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Auditing is only supported for CMS databases in Full and Bulk logged recovery models. If the recovery model is not Full or Bulk, the transaction logs are cleaned up more aggressively and Change Auditor might not have time to capture the event resulting in missed events. An initial backup is required for both Full and Bulk logged databases before the transaction log can support auditing.

For more information

See the Change Auditor for Skype for Business User Guide.

 
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