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Change Auditor for SharePoint

Use this SharePoint security auditing tool to track, report, and alert on changes. Get faster, easier SharePoint audit reports with Change Auditor for SharePoint, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business. Track changes in real time, store audit data in one secure database, and generate reports to protect against policy violations and support audits.

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Centralized reporting for faster, simpler audits

Change Auditor translates events into simple terms and stores data in one centralized and secure database. It also generates intelligent, in-depth SharePoint audit reports to protect against policy violations, delivering the SharePoint and OneDrive for Business reporting data you need to pass your next audit.

Key Benefits

Hybrid environment auditing

Get a single, correlated view of all SharePoint, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business activity whether on-prem or in the cloud.

Centralized SharePoint security auditing

Store audit data in one centralized and secure database, providing separation of duties (SoD) between SharePoint admins and security staff.

Server configuration auditing

Track changes to SharePoint server configurations and security changes involving users, permissions, farms, servers, lists and more.

SharePoint audit reports at-a-glance

Track user and administrator activity with detailed information for change events, plus original and current values for all changes.

Event filters

Narrow searches from multiple SharePoint sources by event type, user account and more, enabling administrators to pinpoint the source of issues.

Real-time alerts on the move

Send critical change and pattern alerts to email and mobile devices to prompt immediate action, even while you're not on site.

Highlighted Features

Security timelines
Use security timelines in Change Auditor to track, filter, and correlate Microsoft environment change events chronologically for faster incident response.
Superior auditing engine
Remove auditing limitations and capture change information without system-provided audit logs, delivering faster results and significant storage savings.
Related searches
Provide one-click access to change details and related events, including activity by specific user and workstation, for faster investigation and less guesswork.

If high-severity events occur, Change Auditor alerts us by email, so we can can determine whether the change was made properly through our change management process or is a malicious act by a hacker.

Brett Ogletree | Information Security Officer | North Central Texas Council of Government

Specifications

There are specific system requirements for the Change Auditor coordinator (server-side), Change Auditor client (client-side), Change Auditor agent (server-side), and the Change Auditor workstation and web client (optional components). For a full list of system requirements and required permissions for all components and target systems that can be audited by Change Auditor please refer to the Change Auditor Release Notes.

The Change Auditor coordinator is responsible for fulfilling client and agent requests and for generating alerts.

Processor

Quad core Intel® Core™ i7 equivalent or better

Memory

Minimum: 8 GB RAM or better

Recommended: 32 GB RAM or better

SQL Server

SQL databases supported up to the following versions:

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2022
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2017
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2019
  • Azure SQL Managed Instance (PaaS) with SQL authentication or Azure Active Directory authentication

NOTE: Performance may vary depending on network configuration, topology, and Azure SQL Managed Instance configuration.

NOTE: Change Auditor supports SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups, SQL Clusters, and databases that have row and page compression applied.

Operating system

Installation platforms (x64) supported up to the following versions:

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2025

NOTE: Microsoft Windows Data Access Components (MDAC) must be enabled. (MDAC is part of the operating system and enabled by default.)

Coordinator software and configuration

For the best performance, Quest strongly recommends:

  • Install the Change Auditor coordinator on a dedicated member server.
  • The Change Auditor database should be configured on a separate, dedicated SQL server instance.

NOTE: Microsoft ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server is required when the Change Auditor database resides on Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Active Directory authentication is selected.

NOTE: Do NOT pre-allocate a fixed size for the Change Auditor database.

In addition, the following software/configuration is required:

  • The coordinator must have LDAP and GC connectivity to all domain controllers in the local domain and the forest root domain.
  • x64 version of Microsoft’s .NET Framework 4.8
  • x64 version of Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 6.0
  • x64 version of Microsoft SQLXML 4.0

Coordinator footprint

  • Estimated hard disk space used: 1 GB.
  • Coordinator RAM usage is highly dependent on the environment, number of agent connections, and event volume.
  • Estimated database size will vary depending on the number of agents deployed and audited events captured.

Additional Account Coordinator minimum permissions required, please see Change Auditor Installation Guide .

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