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File Access Monitoring/Logging Options

We have some clients who would like to be able to keep a log of which users access which files on the file server.  Any recommendations on a good software program to log or monitor this information.

Essentially looking for a list or report that we can sort by user or file and see when it was access and (if possible) was the file changed or deleted.

(The file server is a Windows 2003 Standard OS)

Thanks!
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I believe AdAudit from manageengine does this and more.

I have used some of their other software and it has worked well.
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Windows does of course have auditing built in which can be used for such things, however, while its comprehensive, the built in tools make it difficult to extract the information you need.
Other options such as file audit http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/File-Audit.shtml
do a reasonable job without the 'noise' and overheads.
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