Logging in SharePoint is performed by default in the "root folder/LOGS", and tracks unexpected events and errors when they occur.

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Identify who has removed usergroups from website

is it possible to identify who has removed Usergroups from a Web? If it is not possible, what is the best way to track the changes.
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How to Log Users Who click Hyperlink

I have a SharePoint page with several hyperlinks pointing to different document downloads. I would like to log information everytime someone clicks a hyperlink. More specifically, I would like to keep ...
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Add web service to sharepoint as feature item

I have a web service and a custom logging service class. The logging class has a feature that update or remove itself according to the feature events (Activated=SPService.Update, ...
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AdminService file in logs library

Earlier in folder where I keep SharePoint logs once a days about 6 a.m. in AdminService file entry appeared with: Exiting SPAdvApi32.CheckRestartService Entered ...
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Limitations of the wss_logging database?

I select some data for statistic from the wss_logging database. (How often will each site called in the month) No i realized that the stored data in the table (view) dbo.RequestUsage are only from ...
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How to uniquely identify rows in the RequestUsage view in WSS_Logging?

I am working on a DWH-solution for the WSS RequestUsage log and I need to uniquely identify each row in the RequestUsage view. There is a RowId with guid, but it does not seem to be unique, as you can ...
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Warm-Up Script not writing to log file

I have been working on implementing the warm-up script from Ingo Karstein Warm-Up Script The script runs without any issues, but the log file (.txt) is not being generated as expected. I have the ...
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Why I get “Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation” while looping groups users

Could anyone explain me why when I trying to loop user of a group foreach (var u in group.Users){....}, I get the error : Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. I notice that inside ...
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Writing to log but not showing up in ULS

I have a SharePoint 2010 solution which deploys some custom controls to the ControlTemplates directory (via mapped folder) and a site scoped feature with a feature receiver class that makes some ...
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Create custom login page for both windows and forms based authentication

I created one site with forms based authentication. Now I want to create custom login page for both windows and forms based authentication. For this I followed this post. In this for windows ...
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How do we query the usage logging database to find Average RPS in a SharePoint farm?

In SharePoint 2010 the usage database WSS_Logging has a view named "dbo.RequestUsage". Although Microsoft does not support querying content databases, WSS_logging is supported by Microsoft for direct ...
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verbose logging - How to enable logging for web services calls

What to enable in the Monitoring in order to capture the logs for the web services calls? We are using Kofax to load documents. It works for all the site collection except one site collection. I ...
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Sites not working after sharepoint 2010 server SP1 & Aug 2012 CU

Single server and single farm. It has SP foundation 2010. I then upgraded it to SP 2010 server SP1 (by first installing SP 2010 server followed by SP 2010 foundation SP1 and then server 2010 SP1 and ...
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TimeStamp in UPS log incorrect

When running a profile sync there is a log that you can view within CA that shows you how the process is moving along in its various stages....for whatever reason this log is now displaying a time ...
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How to do custom trace in production / QA environment?

My sharepoint site is in production/ QA so now i need to do some trace activity to find the logs. Instead of using log file i need ot have seperate trace. what king of approach i need to use to achive ...
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Can't find ULS Log file

I'm trying to find ULS logs file, so I went and configured the diagnostic logging in the central administration > Monitoring. I've selected all the categories, Set minimum level of trace ...
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How do I log to the SharePoint ULS logs from a Silverlight web part?

I am developing a Silverlight application which is to be hosted on a sharepoint 2010 page using the out of the box Silverlight webpart control. I want to log any exceptions to the sharepoint ULS logs ...
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correlation id is missing in the Log

I have a handful of correlation id that I need to see in the log what happened this morning when a co-worker checkout the aspx file so he can modify something. upon checkout the whole portal became ...
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Compressing log files

Is there any drawback of applying NTFS compression on IIS and Moss/Sharepoint (version 2007 and 2010) log files ? I guess this won't be an issue. There will be a slight CPU overhead, but a great ...
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ULS and Multiple WFEs

If a farm has multiple WFEs do they have the same ULS logging content replicated across both? Or does each have its own set of logs? Straight forward enough.
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Generate Web Application GUID

I'm trying to troubleshoot some events in my logs and need to figure out what web application is associated to the GUID the logs reference. Anyone know how I can generate the GUID for each of my web ...
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SPDiagnosticsService.WriteTrace throws error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

I am trying to write entries into logging and have trouble doing so. Using Client object model on SharePoint foundation. Code is running from a console app. SPDiagnosticsService.Local.WriteTrace(0, ...
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How to clea Authentication Cache from browser to custom signout sharepoint page completly

This code I have using to clear the cache so that it has automatically sign-out from SharePoint site and it has to prompt the authentication dialog to login again. function _spBodyOnLoad() { ...
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ULS is not logging from web app

This is similar to "http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/2057/how-to-write-to-uls-log-in-sharepoint-2010-from-a-net-app". But in my case, logs are NOT showing up in ULS when logging from a ...
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How to turn off “Failed to open the file” logs for invariant resources? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Resource files creates unnecessary ULS log entries With invariant resources in the SharePoint solutions, we have a lot of spammed logs, such as Failed to open the file ...
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Logging in sharepoint 2010

How to log all sharepoint errors, workflow errors, custom code errors into one central place? I checked this and seems a nice tool, is this saved on a databaase? Can I enable/disable events, like ...
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IIS Log files are not getting generated for the “SharePoint Web Services” webapplication in SharePoint - 2010?

IIS Log files are not getting generated for the "SharePoint Web Services" webapplication in SharePoint - 2010, even though Logging is enabled at the IIS level. Is that an expected behavior? or this ...
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How to set maximum number of logfiles (Sharepoint 2010)?

How can I prevent my sharepoint server from generating mass amounts of logfiles? In the central adminstration I can only configure the maximum size per file + the time to keep them. With the ...
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Logs files suddenly stopped to be filled

I have just installed a setup a new SP 2010 server. I don't know why, but suddenly, logs files stopped to be filled (and so ULS viewer remains empty). At the time of the last log entry, I was ...
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Logging in custom Webparts and Application pages

I'm working on a SharePoint 2010 project which consists of a few application pages and some webparts. Whenever some error occurs in any of the custom pages/webparts I get the sharepoint error page ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Enable all logging timer jobs. Performance?

I found an interesting article about the logging timer jobs in SharePoint 2010. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg512103.aspx#bk_splog In this article, it is stating that all the following ...
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SharePoint 2007 log files only contain “Tracing Service lost trace events.”

We have a problem with logging in our SharePoint 2007 environment. No matter what we try, the log files only contain a wsstracing "lost trace events" message over and over again. wsstracing.exe ...
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SharePoint 2007 stopped recording of messages into log files

May I know what should I do if the MOSS 2007 stop recording message into the logs located in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS folder?
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Is it possible to use SharePoint Logger from MS P&P SharePoint 2010 Guidance Library when user is not authenticated?

I am working on custom authentication for SharePoint 2010. And I found very useful to use SharePoint Logger from MS P&P SharePoint 2010 Guidance Library. It works fine when I get instance of ...
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Anonymous usage reports?

Tried shortly with a fresh SP2010 install but couldn't find a way to do this... Is it possible to configure the usage reporting or the Web Analytics feature to log usage information anonymously? ...
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Task lists across all sites in an InfoPath form [closed]

I am in need of creating an Infopath form which displays the Tasklist across all subsites for a particular user(logged in user). I just used the sharepoint list connection in infopath. It doesnt work ...
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What does the “Event ID” refer to in the ULS logs?

I am getting an error logged to my ULS logs that I would like to look up more information on. I see the "Event ID" in there but I don't know what that refers to. Is this value specific to my ...
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SharePoint very slow at Logging Correlation Data step in page trace

wondering if I configured something wrong. I just installed SharePoint on my laptop and it's running very slowly. It seems to be stuck at the Logging Correlation Data step. What exactly does this ...
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Should I use a third-party logging framework?

I was wondering if any of you were using an extra logging framework like elmah or log4net? Isn't logging already done by SharePoint (ULS)? If you think that it can be useful, could you explain why?
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Audit information for a document library

I'm trying to find out how I can get a list of user names and which files from a particular document library on a my SharePoint 2003 sub-site they have requested/downloaded. I've searched the ...
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Entire webapp unable to log to ULS

I've reinstalled SharePoint with least privilege accounts, and use a separate account for all non-central-admin web apps. This separate domain account is in the WSS_WPG group, and seems otherwise to ...
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How to configure (or what should be the mimimum) the log to bare mimimum?

The log is growing crazy. Someone configured it to log everything and it's growing to 3 GB a day. What is the bare minimum logging I should have so that it does not grow as big yet serves the purpose. ...
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SPDiagnosticsService Area collection vs Areas in CA

In CA, Diagnostic Logging, a lot of areas with their categories are listed. When I enumerate these area's in code only three are returned: Business Connectivity Services SharePoint Foundation ...
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infopath form submit error not getting logged

What is it that would cause no error message to be logged if the form fails to submit? I have a form that has custom submit code written and at times fails on submit. It gives a correlation id which ...
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Possible to add a section to the “Diagnostic Logging” section for a custom timer job?

I found this post but at the end it suggests making changes to the registry which scares me a little bit. Is there a better way to do this? Is modifying the registry in this case "normal"?
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How do I use X-Forwarded-For header with SharePoint?

The WFEs for our OnPrem SharePoint farm sit behind an F5 load balancer. As a result, client requestor IPs are not captured in the IIS logs as everything appears to come from the F5. One way to get ...
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Search Service Application Log Viewer Page Search by URL, does it work?

We have SharePoint Enterprise in our environment, on top of that we use the Search Server 2010 which works well except when I want to find a specific page in the Crawl Log. If I want to see whether ...
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404 on website and “Access denied” error code in log file

I am having problems with my portal (which a newbie has created) in the company I recently joined to get my hands dirty with MOSS 2007; I have no prior experience in SharePoint as I am more of a .NET ...
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My correlation ids aren't showing in the ULS logs, what may be causing this?

I've added all of my SharePoint service accounts to the Domain Admins group which are in the local administrators but I'm still getting ids that don't exist in the logs. I am running a single server ...
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“View Document” Event for Document Library?

I'm trying to capture the View document "event" of when a user clicks on a document in a document library and it opens up the document in Word or Excel... There is not such an event receiver and ...

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