Daily Usage Report

[ncalcaterra]

Hello... We have a few servers running windows server 2003 standard. Is it possible through either tools that the server has itself or a third party software, to run a daily report that will list the "files" (not directories) that were either read or written to each day.

Any help to point me in the right direction would be very much appreciated.

Many Thanks, Nicole

 

[ncalcaterra]

ps... it would be great if some of the fields on the report would be "file path", "file size", and "date" either read or written to. I'm hoping for an export of raw data into either a .txt or .csv file format.

thanks again for any insight.

 

[jbarelds]

Hmm, listing files that were created/changed is easy, "forfiles.exe" can be used to list those. It's harder to list files that were only read. As the file doesn't change, there's no way to do a filtered search dor those.

You might want to take a look at the "Audit Object Access" option in a security policy. If both "Success" and "Failure" events are recorded, you might be able to build a daily list of all files accessed by using "eventquery.vbs".