Control the number of downloaded

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Hi,&nbsp;It is possible to control the number of documents downloaded by a user in a specified range of time in an SPO document library?&nbsp;Thanks

vasilmichev · Answer

No, not by default. But you can certainly monitor this via the Audit logs, and some products such as ASM can allow you to perform actions when "mass download" events are detected. None of these actions can only stop downloads though, without impacting other functionality.

If you use the ODFB client for download, you have bandwith control settings to play with there.

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

Take a look also at the default audit features you have in SPO...as you know, you can configure audit at the document library level and get some reports about activity happening with files

vasilmichev · Answer

Use the Audit logs in the SCC, you have API access to them as well.&nbsp;https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Search-the-audit-log-in-the-Office-365-Security-Compliance-Center-0d4d0f35-390b-4518-800e-0c7ec95e946c?ui=en-US&amp;rs=en-US&amp;ad=US&nbsp;https://msdn.microsoft.com/office-365/office-365-management-activity-api-schema

miguel ortiz jiménez · Answer

I really do not need to stop the mass download of documents, but I do need to audit this one.

Is it possible through a batch process to access the audit of the library using CSOM?
If this is possible, I can access to the audit and send this to site administrators once a week.

Thanks

santhoshb1 · Answer

You can also try this tool from TechNet which will help you to create this report using filters and save it.https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Office-365-Audit-Report-22eff6f3

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