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StephanGee
Sep 07, 2023Iron Contributor
Hunt for "Delete specific folder"
Hi, i have a strange behavior - one some of my servers the Firewall Log folder is gone. It happens to Win2019 server - maybe related to that i accessed the folder - to get the log file and added ...
jbmartin6
Sep 07, 2023Iron Contributor
you said you searched the timeline, did you also check the DeviceFileEvents table?
jbmartin6
Sep 07, 2023Iron Contributor
Looking at my org's data, I also don't see every FileDeleted event there, perhaps by default it only reports on specific folders due to event volume concerns. I didn't find anything online about possible limits on data in DeviceFileEvents, though.
- StephanGeeSep 07, 2023Iron ContributorThats why i thought we might need to turn on auditing.
- jbmartin6Sep 07, 2023Iron ContributorEven stranger, I am testing with a file in my c:\temp folder. The folder has not auditing set. MDE has create and rename events for it, but I didn't get any FileDeleted event for it.
- StephanGeeSep 07, 2023Iron Contributor
that was my experience too 🙂 so it is not just me