Auditing

Dynamics CRM allows extensive auditing down to the field level. This can be enabled on any organization. Careful attention should be given to how much we need to audit, as this can have a negative impact on both performance and data storage. The more you audit, the more space you will require for the audit logs:

In the Audit area we have options to globally enable or disable auditing, configure auditing at the entity and field level, and manage and review the audit logs.

Global Audit Settings is where we can enable or disable auditing and configure auditing for the main modules in the system. This takes us back to System Settings, which we have reviewed earlier in this chapter.

The Entity and Field Audit Settings area takes us to the configuration of the Default Solution. Here we can go to each entity and manage auditing settings.

The Audit Summary View presents the audit log in a way that allows us to sort and filter in order to easily retrieve the specific records we are looking...