Retrieve the creator (user) and created date of a SharePoint group - sharepoint

Question

I need to find the user that created a SharePoint 2010 group as well as the date that it was created. I have tried to find the information using the "SharePoint Manager 2010" tool, but it doesn't seem to provide such information. I also tried Powershell, but I can't seem to get it from that either (not very good at Powershell yet).
Is this even possible, or I would need to turn the audit on somewhere?

Answer 1

There is no Way to get it as far as I know. Even via C# you can't get Values like siteGroup["Author"] or siteGroup[Created"].
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (SPSite spSite = new SPSite("http://DemoSP2010"))
{
using (SPWeb spWeb = spSite.RootWeb)
{
Console.WriteLine(spWeb.Title);
SPGroupCollection collection = spWeb.SiteGroups;
foreach (SPGroup siteGroup in collection)
{
Console.WriteLine(siteGroup.Owner.ToString());
Console.WriteLine(siteGroup.Xml.ToString());
}
}
}
Console.WriteLine("Done!");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
The XML also just provides information about:
ID
Name
Description
OwnerID
OwnerIsUser

Answer 2

(IDK about 2010 ...but) In SharePoint 2013 on-prem the following Powershell will provide the Created by, Created date, Modified by and Modified date of each group (and site user)
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell
$spWeb = Get-SPWeb 'http(s)://YourSite/'
$spList =$spWeb.SiteUserInfoList
$oColl = $spList.Items
$oColl | ForEach-Object {
Write-Host $_['ID'] $_['Name'] $_['Author'] $_['Created'] $_['Editor'] $_['Modified']
}