Who last accessed file

I can scroll down further and see all these accesses from all these files and folders that were read at the same time on the same day. I can see that they happened simultaneously so that can lead me to believe that Alice is selecting a large number of files and copying them to an external drive or possibly to a desktop.

The next step that I want to put in place is some proactive alerts in case these kinds of accesses happen again. Archived Forums. File Services and Storage. Sign in to vote. Is there a way to? Is that information unobtainable? Any help would be much appreciated! Thursday, January 8, AM. Without auditing, there isn't much you can do.

Tico May 7, at UTC. Windows Server expert. This is a very often asked question. Grahame May 7, at UTC. Hi everyone thanks for the replies, that's what I thought but it was worth a shot.

That ship has sailed. Cheers doug Any freeware ones? Grahame MSFT auditing runs on the machine being audited, and records are written to the system's event logs.

Hope this helps. There is nothing to say if auditing is not enabled. Lepide 1, Followers Follow. LepideAuditor for File Server NetFort 13 Followers Follow. Ghost Chili. Grahame wrote: Hi everyone thanks for the replies, that's what I thought but it was worth a shot. Edited May 8, at UTC. Netwrix Auditor 9 Netwrix 3, Followers Follow. DataSecurity Plus overcomes these shortcomings and provides a comprehensive file auditing solution that can be configured and installed within minutes.

How to detect who last accessed a file with DataSecurity Plus Start your free trial. Why should you track who last accessed a file? To find essential information such as who made changes, when, and where from the last file access event.

To identify unauthorized access attempts. To obtain valuable forensic information regarding access attempts in case of a data breach. Steps to configure DataSecurity Plus to track file accesses. Download and install DataSecurity Plus. Open the DataSecurity Plus console. Provide the Domain Name along with its username and password. Add required domain controllers and click Save. Select your domain and add servers that you want to audit.

Choose the files and folders to be audited from Select Objects to Monitor. Click Install Agent and Finish.