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SharePoint Online

NOTE: Prior to configuring your monitoring plan, please read and complete the instructions in the following topics:

  • Protocols and Ports Required – To ensure successful data collection and activity monitoring configure necessary protocols and ports for inbound and outbound connections

  • Data Collecting Account – Configure data collecting accounts as required to audit your IT systems

  • SharePoint Online – Configure data source as required to be monitored

How to Add Office365 Item​

This instruction shows how to collect audit data from the Microsoft 365 tenant.

If you plan to use modern authentication, see the Configuring Microsoft Entra ID App for Auditing Microsoft Entra ID topic for additional information on how to prepare Microsoft Entra ID app with required permissions. Make sure you have the following at hand:

  • Tenant name
  • For modern authentication: Application (client) ID
  • Application secret
  • For basic authentication: User name and password

Types of data that can be collected by Netwrix Auditor from the Microsoft 365 tenant depend on the authentication option you choose.

Follow the steps to configure Office 365 tenant as a monitored item.

Step 1 – On the General page of the item properties, specify Tenant name:

  • If you are going to use Basic authentication, you can proceed to the next step – Tenant name will be filled in automatically after it.

  • NOTE: Basic authentication is no longer possible for Exchange Online. For the already existing tenants it is still possible to use basic authentication for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Entra ID monitoring.

  • If you are going to use Modern authentication, paste the obtained name. See the Using Modern Authentication with Microsoft Entra ID topic for additional information.

tenantenvironment

If you are using a government tenant, please click the Tenant Environment tab and select the desired tenant environment.

Step 2 – Select authentication method that will be used when accessing Office 365 services:

Step 3 – Click the Add button.

Add Office 365 Item window

You can use a single account to collect audit data for different Office 365 services (Microsoft Entra ID, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online); however, Netwrix recommends that you specify individual credentials for each of them.

Step 4 – Complete the following fields:

OptionDescription
Monitor this data source and collect activity dataEnable monitoring of the selected data source and configure Auditor to collect and store audit data.
Audit SharePoint Online configuration and content changesConfiguration and content changes are always audited.
Audit SharePoint Online read accessConfigure Auditor to monitor SharePoint Online read access.
Collect data for state-in-time reportsConfigure Netwrix Auditor to store daily snapshots of your SharePoint Online configuration required for further state-in-time reports generation. See the State–In–Time Reports topic for additional information. The product updates the latest snapshot on the regular basis to keep users up-to-date on actual system state. Only the latest snapshot is available for reporting in Netwrix Auditor. If you want to generate reports based on different snapshots, you must import snapshots to the Audit Database. For that, in the Manage historical snapshots section, click Manage and select the snapshots that you want to import. To import snapshots, you must be assigned the Global administrator or the Global reviewer role . Move the selected snapshots to the Snapshots available for reporting list using the arrow button. When finished, click OK.

Review your data source settings and click Add to go back to your plan. The newly created data source will appear in the Data source list. As a next step, click Add item to specify an object for monitoring. See the Add Items for Monitoring topic for additional information.

See the Permissions for SharePoint Online Auditing topic for additional information.