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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Accessing security policy reports


In the previous recipe, we configured the auditing settings. We need to read this information and evaluate what is happening on our site.

The security policy reports show us what is going on in our sites. In this recipe, we will show how to run the reports.

Getting ready

You must have site collection owner privileges.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Navigate to the desired team site, which is the root site collection.

  2. 2. Click on Site Actions and then Site Settings.

  3. 3. Under Site Collection Administration, click Audit log reports.

  4. 4. Scroll to the bottom of the resulting screen. It should be similar to the following screenshot:

  5. 5. Click Auditing settings.

  6. 6. A form pops up with a text box where we must put a save location for the report. Using the Browse button, navigate to Shared Documents.

  7. 7. Click OK.

  8. 8. A screen will appear with a link to the generated report, click this link. The report will appear in the Excel format.

How it works...

These reports are fed by the previous recipe...

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Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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