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Copper Contributor

May 09, 2017

Control the number of downloaded

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

MVP

May 09, 2017

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
MVP
May 09, 2017
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
- Miguel Ortiz Jiménez
  Copper Contributor
  May 09, 2017
  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
  - VasilMichev
    MVP
    May 09, 2017
    Use the Audit logs in the SCC, you have API access to them as well.
    
    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&rs=en-US&ad=US
    
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/office-365/office-365-management-activity-api-schema