Activity Audit & Logging

The blog covers how to Audit a huge range of data processing activities. This is not necessary to be enabled in each organization & purely depends on your GDPR rules and regulations. 

Below is the pre-requisite for activity logging:

1. A Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 or E5 subscription is required to do Activity Logging.
2. Available for production and not sandbox environments

Under this type of auditing, there are two categories of events that are logged:

1. Admin- related events
2. User & support related events

This information from Activity Logging can be used when you perform a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) addressing the use of Office, Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate, and model-driven apps in Dynamics 365 (such as Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service).

Since auditing takes place on the SDK layer, this means that single action could trigger multiple events to be logged. This in turn could impact performance. 

TIP: To view this activity logging you also need to enable Audit on Office 365 tenant & you must be Global admin for this.

You can read details below as per Microsoft docs:

Activity Logging

Turn Audit Log Search On in Office 365

Want to read on previous blog, here are the links:

Global Audit

Field- level Auditing

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