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How to enable Audit functionality in SharePoint 2010

“Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 includes four information management policy features to help you manage your content: expiration, auditing, document labels, and document bar codes. - msdn.microsoft.c om” In this post I will focus on the audit capabilities in SharePoint 2010, more specifically how to enable the audit functionality. When the audit functionally is enabled it will automatically log events and activities that is done on your content. The content could be documents, records and other items, such as task list and calendars. Why Why would you enable auditing in SharePoint? There could be different reasons, and they often depend on which vertical (e.g. Public/Government) you are located in. Meet Regulatory and Legal requirements. Track how documents (and items) are used. Keep track of document history if documents are sent to the Content Organizer . When using the Content Organizer,  the document’s version history is deleted. The audit log will be your source to