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MOSS 2007 auditing. In many cases it is useful to know how many times a document is opened.Sometimes even when and who? Moss 2007 offers auditing as a standard solution for this need. This is what Microsoft has to say about Auditing: Office SharePoint Server 2007 goes even further and enables auditing at the list or document library level, and control over what types of events should be recorded in the audit log. Office SharePoint Server 2007 also provides a reporting function that uses Microsoft Office Excel workbooks to display and keep records of audit logs. Therefore, Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables you to take advantage of the Windows SharePoint Services auditing support without having to write any custom code. In MOSS 2007 it is possible to track several events on list items.This is done with information management policies. Here’s a good definition about the extra’s Sharepoint server 2007 provides: Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides an administrative user interface that allows you to enable and configure auditing without having to write any code. And office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a reporting aspect. More specifically, Office SharePoint Server 2007 makes it possible to generate Excel workbooks that contain the information about audit events within the Windows SharePoint Services audit log.  So MOSS makes it easy for us to track and report usage of documents and lists. Here how Microsoft describes the configuration of auditing: 

Auditing in MOSS 2007

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