Hi All,

I am building a tool for one of our company's service desks, and one
of the functions I'm hoping to add is the ability to enter a username
and find what PC that user is currently logged into.

As AD doesn't store this kind of information, is there any source I
can get this information from?

Thanks,
Nathan Manzi

"fomalhaut" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I am building a tool for one of our company's service desks, and one
> of the functions I'm hoping to add is the ability to enter a username
> and find what PC that user is currently logged into.
>
> As AD doesn't store this kind of information, is there any source I
> can get this information from?
>
> Thanks,
> Nathan Manzi
>

Not without querying all PC's in the network to see who's actually logged on.

Willy.

On Feb 22, 6:20 pm, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]"
<willy.denoye...@telenet.be> wrote:
> "fomalhaut" <nathan.ma...@nathanmanzi.com> wrote in message
>
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > Hi All,
>
> > I am building a tool for one of our company's service desks, and one
> > of the functions I'm hoping to add is the ability to enter a username
> > and find what PC that user is currently logged into.
>
> > As AD doesn't store this kind of information, is there any source I
> > can get this information from?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan Manzi
>
> Not without querying all PC's in the network to see who's actually logged on.
>
> Willy.

A bit out of scope of this usenet group, but would something like
System Managment Server hold this information?

Thanks, Nathan Manzi

"fomalhaut" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Feb 22, 6:20 pm, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]"
> <willy.denoye...@telenet.be> wrote:
>> "fomalhaut" <nathan.ma...@nathanmanzi.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> > Hi All,
>>
>> > I am building a tool for one of our company's service desks, and one
>> > of the functions I'm hoping to add is the ability to enter a username
>> > and find what PC that user is currently logged into.
>>
>> > As AD doesn't store this kind of information, is there any source I
>> > can get this information from?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Nathan Manzi
>>
>> Not without querying all PC's in the network to see who's actually logged on.
>>
>> Willy.
>
> A bit out of scope of this usenet group, but would something like
> System Managment Server hold this information?

Nope.
SMS does not hold the dynamic states of the network resources. Logon states are only
available on the WS/Server, note also that each PC on a network can have multple Logon
session active at a moment. Your only option is to query the Logon states of each individual
PC, or have a service running on each PC that publishes it's logon session states to a
management station.

Willy.