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Auditing tool for Windows 2003 server file system access

Tags: windows, 2003, auditing, file, server
Hello there,

Since our branch office moved on to the company-wide terminal server, much of our documents are being saved on a network location, and we just need to assess the volume of traffic to our old file server as there are still some files on a local share that are needed occasionally.

What would be the best auditing tool that can watch the file system at the server itself and provide a decent report, or an output file that can be reported on easily?

Server OS: Windows 2003

As this is just a 1-off event, naturally the tool we're looking for should be very low cost, or free.

Other discussions had things such as live monitoring using Sysinternals tools - but nothing does an audit per-se, where we could run the app for a week or two.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Zone: Networking
Question Asked By: aarombawa
Solution Provided By: JimboEfx
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Solution Grade: A
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