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SharePoint 2019 on Premises Audit Log Report

Hello Everyone,

I am using SharePoint 2019 on premises and I am working with audit log report in excel format. Few days back I wanted some report but it did not gave me a full report as I did not know who (which user) download the file.

So to test it i prepared a scenario, where i have created 3 test user.

  1. From user A i uploaded 3 file (pdf, excel, word) in general library.

  2. From User B and User C i view those 3 file and downloaded with those user.

  3. When i check the audit report it is just showing me the user uploaded the file, but it did not show me the user downloaded the file.

How i will know which user view certain important document or download them ?

Thank You So Much.



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trevorseward answered

SharePoint Server 2019 does not support the "View" audit action. This was removed as of 2019.

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Hi @TehsimAftab-3756,

As trevor said, SharePoint server 2019 has no "Opening or downloading documents, viewing items in lists or viewing item properties" audit event at site collection level.

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As a workaround, we could enable SharePoint Auditing for the Document Content Type in current library to meet your requirement.

Check as follows:

Go to the library settings>Information Management Policy Settings> select Document content type then check the relevant option:

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Please note If you are missing Information Management Policy Settings, we first need to enable the Site policy feature on the site collection level.

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Finally, please note that "View/Download/Open" is displayed as a same "View" event on the report

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Thank you for your detailed explanation, i did not tryed with document information management by policy. I will try that and get back to you. Thank You So Much.

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Yes, I am looking forward to your feedback.

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Answer, It solve my concern. Thank You So Much.

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