SharePoint Online: How to Track Document Downloads from Audit Log?

Requirement: Track document downloads in SharePoint Online. How to Audit Downloads in SharePoint Online? Do you need to keep track of who is downloading your SharePoint Online documents? Are you looking for a way to track document downloads from Audit Log in SharePoint Online? In this guide, we will show you how…

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How to Configure Audit Log to Capture All Deletes in SharePoint?

Requirement: Track all delete operations in SharePoint. How to Configure Audit Settings to Track Deletes in SharePoint? Deleting content from SharePoint can be a necessary task, but you may want to track who is deleting what and when. This article will show you how to configure Audit Logs to track delete actions…

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SharePoint: Find Permission Changes using Audit Reports

Requirement: Get all permission changes in a SharePoint site collection. Auditing permission changes are critical for SharePoint Online security. Audit reports provide permission changes reports to track changes to security such as modifications to permissions, permission inheritance, group membership, and security-related events. This blog post will show you how to find permission changes…

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How to Disable Auditing in SharePoint using PowerShell?

Requirement: Disable auditing in a SharePoint site collection. How to Disable Audit Log in SharePoint? Auditing in SharePoint is a great way to track what’s happening on your site. However, it’s easy to disable if you don’t need or want to use auditing. In this article, we will discuss how to disable…

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SharePoint Online: Enable Auditing using PowerShell

Requirement: Enable Auditing in SharePoint Online using PowerShell. Update: SharePoint Online Site Collection audit logs are disabled and can’t be accesssed from both Web UI and CSOM methods! Instead, you have to use the Unified Audit Logs from Compliance Center: How to View SharePoint Online Audit Log from Security & Compliance Center?…

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Is the “Audit Log Reports” Link Missing in SharePoint?

Problem: Audit log reports are missing in SharePoint! We enabled auditing for a SharePoint site collection, but under the site settings page, we found the “Audit Log Reports” link missing. How to enable audit log reports in SharePoint? To enable audit log reports in SharePoint On-premises, we must activate the “Reporting” feature…

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Get All Web Applications in SharePoint using PowerShell

Web Applications are the top-level containers in SharePoint. Each Web Application we create in SharePoint central administration is associated with the site in IIS. How to get all web applications in SharePoint farm? In many SharePoint environments, there are separate web applications for different functions. For example, one web application might be…

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Find All InfoPath List Forms in SharePoint using PowerShell

Requirement: Find all customized InfoPath list forms in SharePoint. Tasked to report a listing of all the InfoPath List forms customized in the SharePoint web application during a migration project. PowerShell Script to Find All InfoPath List Forms in SharePoint With the deprecation of InfoPath in SharePoint 2016 and Office 365, we…

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