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Dataverse | New Auditing Features
Audit data is now stored separately from customer records so an organization’s audit log can grow to many terabytes in size without limiting available Database capacity.
Audit Retention Policy:
- In the ‘Admin Center’, on the ‘Environment’ page now we have ‘Auditing -> Manage’ option to set the Audit Retention Policy.
- Select one of the options from the dropdown to set the retention duration.
- Audit records are automatically deleted after the retention period is over, relieving administrators from the burden of deleting audit data manually.
- It is also possible to keep the audit log indefinitely by not specifying a retention period.
Free up capacity:
- With the new audit deletion options, Administrators can delete the logs of one or more audited tables, delete the user access logs, or delete logs up to a specific date in order to free up storage space.
Refer the docs link for more insights.
Dynamics 365 – Read Auditing
One of the much awaited features ‘Read Access Audit‘ is being roll out in the latest version of Dynamics 365 online.
Enable ‘Read’ Audit:
- Connect to your Dynamics 365 application.
- To enable Audit, choose Settings > Administration > System Settings > Auditing tab
Access Audit Data:
- Audit data can be viewed by connecting to the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center.
- Connect to https://protection.office.com > Search & investigation > Audit log search and select the Dynamics 365 activities tab
Refer this article for more info.
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Auditing User’s Team membership in CRM
Recently we got a requirement to track Team membership of a User (i.e., Log when a User gets Add/Remove from a Team).
We checked whether the OOB Audit feature would fulfill this requirement.
Audit feature does logs an entry every time we add/remove a User from Team but as separate events.
Add User to a Team – Audit
- An entry with Event name ‘Associate Entities’ gets created in Audit History
- On double click on the entry you get below window with details of Team that User added to.
Audit Log-Add User to Team
Remove User from a Team – Audit
- An entry with Event name ‘Disassociate Entities’ gets created in Audit History
- On double click on the entry you get below window with details of Team that User removed from.
Audit Log- Remove User from Team
More Info
- Audit feature provide details of User’s Team membership, but not in a detailed manner.
- Also ‘Associate Entities & Disassociate Entities‘ event’s will get logged in ‘Audit History’ every time you perform Associate\Disassociate operations with your N:N related entities.
- If the details provided in Audit does not give you more details, You can go for a Plugin to log more details when User gets Add/Remove from a Team.
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Rajeev Pentyala - Microsoft Power Platform 