Log Authoring Actions

Users with permission to modify the content of a   can change text, graphics, links, structure, and so on. To keep track of who made changes to a web and which files were changed, you can log authoring actions in a     and all its   . Then the system records the time an author's action was performed, the author's user name, the web name, the remote host, and per-operation data, and stores this information in a log file named _vti_log/Author.log, in the  root web. If there were a security breach, you could analyze this log file to determine what authoring activity occurred on the web.

To log authoring actions

1. In the  , right-click the root web for which you want to log authoring actions.
2. Click Properties on the shortcut menu, and then click the Server Extensions tab.
3. Make sure that the Log authoring actions check box is selected.