How can I tell who deleted a folder from a public share?

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Published on 2010-05-11T16:43:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 16:55 UTC
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Like a lot of offices we have a few public shares for different teams to save their data. Today I helped someone restore some folders from a shadow copy that had been deleted sometime last week. While I had the shadow copies (and backups elsewhere), I couldn't answer the obvious first question.

"Who deleted the files?"

We're running Windows 2003 server, everyone has active directory accounts.

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