2008 monitor files and folders

[techstress]

We would like to monitor the movement or deletions of files and
folders on the user data volume of our file server. do you guys/gals
know of any best practices for this?

[Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]]

Hello techstress,

You have to enable folder/file auditing, see here from another posting:
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Enabling file auditing is a 2-step process.

[1] Configure "audit object access" in AD Group Policy or on the server's
local GPO. This setting is located under Computer Configuration-->Windows
Settings-->Security Settings-->Local Policies-->Audit Policies. Enable success/failure
auditing for "Audit object access."

[2] Configure an audit entry on the specific folder(s) that you wish to audit.
Right-click on the folder-->Properties-->Advanced. From the Auditing tab,
click Add, then enter the users/groups whom you wish to audit and what actions
you wish to audit - auditing Full Control will create an audit entry every
time anyone opens/changes/closes/deletes a file, or you can just audit for
Delete operations.

After you've done both of these steps, any file deletions will show up in
the Security log of the file server that hosts those files.

HTH
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Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Post by techstress
We would like to monitor the movement or deletions of files and
folders on the user data volume of our file server. do you guys/gals
know of any best practices for this?

[r***@gmail.com]

For the movements and deletion of files and folder i would recommend you to please use a third party freeware tool such as Lepide Auditor for file server for the same. Few monts ago i have to do this and i used Lepide Auditor for file Server for the same and today its good to recommend some one as an answer. Lepide Auditor for file server is a server monitoring tool that Audits all the files and folder with in a Server. It helsp to create a real time alert report and moreover helps to identify who,what and when deleted occured in a file server. Please download the tool from the given link and test its trail version today..

http://www.lepide.com/file-server-audit/

Hope it helps you.

Post by techstress
We would like to monitor the movement or deletions of files and
folders on the user data volume of our file server. do you guys/gals
know of any best practices for this?