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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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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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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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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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Where do you set retention for ScheduleLog files?

On this SharePoint 2013 farm I see ScheduleLog-yyyymmdd.txt files going back for years. They are in the same folder as the ULS logs. Sample content is like: 20-11-2019 00:00:57 ...
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How to get notification when download count beyond some numbers?

We can create alerts when some event triggered. But I want to get notification by email when users trying to download more than 10 documents in a day. Any possibilities? Thanks in advance.
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SharePoint Windows logging - account was successfully logged on 4624 - why so frequent?

My company has a centralized logging platform for all servers. We recently noticed that the bulk of our events come from SharePoint servers for successful logon events. If I look at "Event Viewer" -> "...
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SharePoint 2013 WFE Configuration Failed - Could not find part of the path

I am trying to join two WFE's to a new farm, but when I run PSCONFIGGUI it fails on step 4. Failed to connect to the configuration database In the error it then states An exception of type Sytem.IO....
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SharePoint 2013 Audit Log Reports missing requests

We use built-in SharePoint 2013 Audit Log functionality to track accessed reports and documents. Audit Log reports are mission critical for us. SharePoint's content viewing report shows some audit ...
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Logging history for Sharepoint 2010 Foundation

Is there any way to get a record of who entered the portal with the date and time?
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ULS realtime logging not returning anything

So, i was out of office for one day and Sharepoint gives up on me. I'm trying to use ULS realtime feed to see whats going on but it returns zero data. While navigating down to C:\Program Files\...
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SharePoint 2013 Apps Monitor

I am using SharePoint 2013 Server. I am monitoring an app, I followed this guide: Monitor apps for SharePoint. In the monitor, I can see that the errors are updated each 24 hours and the history logs ...
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Sandbox Logging dll won't load

I am trying to use the codeplex.spsl Sandbox Logging framework but am having trouble getting it to execute in my code. The following error occurs on the last line of the following code snippet. ...
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Log sharepoint security events to the windows event log

Is it possible, through either a configuration setting or some minor conding, to make SharePoint log all security events to the Windows Event Log? I'm primarily interested in events that deal with ...
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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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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? State ...
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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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What is listener and subcriber in pnpjs/logging?

I'm a newbie to SPFx, I have a task to create a custom logger that can record any exception and error that happen in a web part (like serilog on .NET). I'm following a guide but there is something ...
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C:\TempPath directory is growing too large. What is it and how do I stop it?

I've been searching for an answer the past few weeks but I can't figure out where these files are coming from. On the server that hosts our SP sites and services, there is a directory called C:\...
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SharePoint 2010 log4net EventReceiver not work

I'm developing one SharePoint Farm Solution with SharePoint 2010 Foundation. I've used log4net for logging. I configured my log4net inside assembly info using: [assembly: log4net.Config....
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OWSTIMER.Exe issue: The following error occured while trying to read the ConnectionString property

I'm investigating an issue on a Timer Job. In the ULS log file I noticed below error message which is thrown by OWSTIMER.Exe. "The following error occured while trying to read the ConnectionString ...
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Has evelated user through SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPriviliges write permissions to SharePoint LOGS folder?

i have a general question: When i run my under SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges Does the eleveated user (AppPool Account) always (in any SP installation) permission to create a file in the ...
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Issue logging in on external server

For some reason when users try to log on to our server from external computers they are getting the access denied screen, and it tells them they do not have access, when they indeed do have access to ...
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SharePoint 2013 Log Error - dbo.proc_MIP_GetScheduledJobsInInterval

I've recently check the log files of my SharePoint 2013 installation and I found that I've an exception error that occur quite often. The log says that SharePoint could not find stored procedure 'dbo....
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SharePoint 2013 didn't log exceptions

I have a problem with SharePoint 2013. I have created a WSP package that works great on 2010 but doesn't on 2013. Actually, when I tried to access to the page, I receive the classic "Unexpected error ...
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When uploading files to SharePoint via Windows Explorer, is there a way to write into a log the errors encountered?

The scenario is users will be manually uploading a lot of their files to SharePoint via Windows Explorer, and we need to be able to identify the files that failed to be uploaded (it may be due to long ...
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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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