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Audit files José Carretero García 07-11-2005
---> Re: Audit files Steven L Umbach07-11-2005
---> Re: Audit files Olaf Engelke [M...07-11-2005
  `--> Re: Audit files Karl Levinson, ...07-11-2005
Posted by José Carretero García on July 11, 2005, 11:30 am
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Hi to everyone,

I need to audit any folders and files in a share drive. I want to know when
every users of the domain delete, open, create a file or folder.
My server is a w2003.

Thank you





Posted by Steven L Umbach on July 11, 2005, 11:42 am
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The other posters did a great job explaining what to do but FYI auditing
every file for every permissions for every user will generate a tremendous
amount on object access events in the security log and I would suggest that
you increase it's size to at least 100MB. More than likely you will be
overwhelmed with such events and it will be difficult to find useful
information. Unless you are bound by regulations to do such you may want to
fine tune what folders/files you are auditing and only audit the bare number
of permissions needed to find the information that you need. You will find
Event Comb from Microsoft helpful in searching the security log for events
and text strings. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308471 --- Event
Comb

> Hi to everyone,
>
> I need to audit any folders and files in a share drive. I want to know
> when every users of the domain delete, open, create a file or folder.
> My server is a w2003.
>
> Thank you
>
>




Posted by Roger Abell on July 13, 2005, 12:18 am
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Not only will it generate a large audit trail, but if the shared
areas are heavily used it will tend to bog down the I/O system.
One needs to keep in mind that for each access you will be
forcing other disk I/O to record the audited event.
If there is some data that must be audited for all accesses
then isolate this from other data so that data that does not
need such tight oversight is not included in the auditing.
--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)

> The other posters did a great job explaining what to do but FYI auditing
> every file for every permissions for every user will generate a tremendous
> amount on object access events in the security log and I would suggest
that
> you increase it's size to at least 100MB. More than likely you will be
> overwhelmed with such events and it will be difficult to find useful
> information. Unless you are bound by regulations to do such you may want
to
> fine tune what folders/files you are auditing and only audit the bare
number
> of permissions needed to find the information that you need. You will find
> Event Comb from Microsoft helpful in searching the security log for events
> and text strings. --- Steve
>
> Comb
>
> > Hi to everyone,
> >
> > I need to audit any folders and files in a share drive. I want to know
> > when every users of the domain delete, open, create a file or folder.
> > My server is a w2003.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> >
>
>




Posted by Olaf Engelke [MVP Windows Serv on July 11, 2005, 12:48 pm
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Hi José,
José Carretero García wrote:
> I need to audit any folders and files in a share drive. I want to
> know when every users of the domain delete, open, create a file or
> folder. My server is a w2003.
>
it's a two step process, first you need to setup the security policies for
Auditing Object Access, then you can configure the NTFS settings.
The Windows Server Help and Support contains a good guide how to setup such
things.
Simply open Help and Support and search for Auditing.

Best greetings from Germany
Olaf.



Posted by Karl Levinson, mvp on July 11, 2005, 7:16 am
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.... and there are some other MS articles on the subject here:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#auditing


> Hi José,
> José Carretero García wrote:
> > I need to audit any folders and files in a share drive. I want to
> > know when every users of the domain delete, open, create a file or
> > folder. My server is a w2003.
> >
> it's a two step process, first you need to setup the security policies for
> Auditing Object Access, then you can configure the NTFS settings.
> The Windows Server Help and Support contains a good guide how to setup
such
> things.
> Simply open Help and Support and search for Auditing.
>
> Best greetings from Germany
> Olaf.
>




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