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Audit File Share

This category logs one and only one event. To configure this on Server 2008 and Vista you must use auditpol. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 and later can use Group Policy.

Coverage on events generated by this category are currently in the Security Log Encyclopedia:

Event ID Title
5140 A network share object was accessed.

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