KB20160801-1 How to enable Audit Logging in Office 365

Published: 8/1/2016

Applies to: Office 365 as of 8/1/2016

Summary: Before you analyze adoption or usage with Cayosoft Administrator, you must first enable audit logging in the Office 365 portal.

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Enabling Auditing Logging in Office 365

1. Sign-on to the Office 365 portal as a global administrator
2. Open the App launcher and click Admin
   The app launcher is the waffle shape at the top right corner of the portal.
3. Click Admin centers from the navigation menu on the left
4. Click Security and Compliance
5. Click Search & investigation
6. Click Audit log search
7. Click Start recording user and admin activities above the Search attributes
   Note: If you don't see this link, auditing has already been turned on for your organization.
8. When prompted, click Turn on
9. If prompted to updated your organization settings, click Yes to continue

After enabling auditing, a message is displayed that says the audit log is being prepared.

IMPORTANT: It may take several hours for auditing preparation to complete on Office 365 side. Audit data is not updated in real-time, so you must wait one or two days before activity may appear.