[New Feature] Audit Activity Logging

You must have access of System customizer or system Administrator or Equivalent Role.

If you notice in Setting > auditing > Global Audit Setting > Audit Setting Area >

We have new option called Start Reading Auditing.

1. What is this for and how this will help in auditing?Also notice in Setting > Customization > Entities >  Any Entity(Account) >

Additional to  Auditing which was in Older version as well.
Now we have two more option for auditing

Single record auditing. Log a record when opened.
Multiple record auditing. Log all records displayed on an opened page.
In both the Audit Setting area we have information message by Microsoft as below.
Read Auditing will log each time this entity data is accessed by the user in the application or programmatically using API. View these logs in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center. Learn more

1. So what is this all about?
   1. This is also known as activity logging
   2. This is about Protecting data, preserving privacy, and complying with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation
   3. Recapitulating GDPR –
      In May 2018, a European privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is due to take effect. The GDPR imposes new rules on companies, government agencies, non-profits, and other organizations that offer goods and services to people in the European Union (EU), or that collect and analyze data tied to EU residents. The GDPR applies no matter where you are located.

Previously Auditing was limited to CRM Users and its records.
Auditing was limited to following options

• Create, update, deactivate, and delete operations on records.
• Changes to the sharing privileges of a record.
• The N:N association or disassociation of records.
• Changes to security roles.
• Audit changes at the entity, attribute, and organization level. For example, enabling audit on an entity.
• Deletion of audit logs.
• For changes made to entity fields that can be localized, such as the Product entity name or description fields, the locale ID (LCID) appears in the audit record.

About Auditing in Previous Version

Now with New options of Auditing,

• You can log user and admin activities across Office and Dynamics 365 apps.
• Auditing occurs at the SDK layer of Dynamics 365 which means much more data is logged than just activities.
  Logging takes place at the SDK layer which means a single action can trigger multiple events that are logged. The following are a sample of admin and user events you can audit.
• Events which are audited now in Additional to Old options

Entities and action log for Microsoft Social Engagement

All SDK messages are logged now, Except Following List of SDK messages

• WhoAmI
• RetrieveFilteredForms
• TriggerServiceEndpointCheck
• QueryExpressionToFetchXml
• FetchXmlToQueryExpression
• FireNotificationEvent
• RetrieveMetadataChanges
• RetrieveEntityChanges
• RetrieveProvisionedLanguagePackVersion
• RetrieveInstalledLanguagePackVersion
• RetrieveProvisionedLanguages
• RetrieveAvailableLanguages
• RetrieveDeprovisionedLanguages
• RetrieveInstalledLanguagePacks
• GetAllTimeZonesWithDisplayName
• GetTimeZoneCodeByLocalizedName
• IsReportingDataConnectorInstalled
• LocalTimeFromUtcTime
• IsBackOfficeInstalled
• FormatAddress
• IsSupportUserRole
• IsComponentCustomizable
• ConfigureReportingDataConnector
• CheckClientCompatibility
• RetrieveAttribute

This link below gives more details on Example of How data will be logged.

Microsoft Document Link

Now this was about Setting up auditing what about
Read Auditing will log each time this entity data is accessed by the user in the application or programmatically using API. View these logs in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center. 

1. How to view those audited Data.
   • This data is available to view in Office 365
   • Login to Office.com or office 365 and you can see there is Security and Compliance app, clicking this app will open protection.office.com,  Or you can directly login in https://protection.office.com
     

Go to Search and investigation > Audit Log Search and in Search Activities , Search for Dynamics 365 Activities or whichever application activity you want to view log for. Here you can see all the log of events and messages.

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