SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

While working on recent 2013 project we had a requirement to allow business users to view site collection audit reports but not be site collection administrators.

Looking into this we could see that there was no way simple way to do this via permissions, but it was actually a very simple request to fulfil.

Firstly we setup site collection auditing for the opening of items (this was the only requirement) and set daily log trimming to a location that the end users can get to.

The next step was to configure the audit log trimming job from being monthly to daily to force the log generation.

Now we have a library with daily audit reports that business users can access.