getting all the PCs in a Domain a specific user is logged in

[Marco Herrn]

Hi,

I have the following problem. I need to find out on which PCs a certain
user is currently logged in. Since the user is logged into a domain, I
think that the Domain Controller must have this information.

But I didn't find any API with which that would be possible. With the
ADSI Object IADSSession, I can only find out which user is remotely
logged in into a specific server, and only if this server is running a
Server OS (Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003).

Is there a way to get this information?

Regards
Marco

 

[Tomasz Onyszko]

Hi,

I have the following problem. I need to find out on which PCs a certain
user is currently logged in. Since the user is logged into a domain, I
think that the Domain Controller must have this information.

But I didn't find any API with which that would be possible. With the
ADSI Object IADSSession, I can only find out which user is remotely
logged in into a specific server, and only if this server is running a
Server OS (Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003).

Is there a way to get this information?

Yes, there is but it's not easy way - only through gathering data from
the event logs of this machines and analyzing it.

Or deploying some solution like LimitLogon and gathering this data from
its database.

 

[Paul Bergson]

As Tomasz said see:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2005/05/UtilitySpotlight/default.aspx

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