Is there a way to keep track of all changes in a SharePoint site collection?

Question

My company is soon rolling out a SharePoint-based intranet.

During the first few weeks of the rollout I would like to keep close track of all the content that is added and edited on the sites.

Is there a simple way to keep track of all changes made in a site collection? Ideally I would like to see a list of all changes made to everything that I have access to. For instance: list items added/edited, notes added/edited

I am aware of the 'Alerts' functionality, but AFAIK I can only add alerts for individual lists/document libraries etc.

Answer 1

Setup Audit Logging in SharePoint 2010 to accomplish this. Visit this blog to see how this is accomplished.

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