IE history

[halteach]

I work in a middle school and would like to track kids' internet "Surfing."
When the students log off I have a script that xcopies the history folder
back to their network directory (thanks to Jerry Schulman for the idea .

However, the files copied are in a .dat format and I can't found out how to
read them. Is there someway to read these files when you're not logged on?

Thanks.

Hal

 

[Stanley Jones [MSFT]]

You can always use Notepad, though formatting may not be pretty.

 

[Cameron Dorrough]

If you used a Proxy Server that has logging features (something like
Winroute running on an old Win98 box would do nicely) you could get nicely
formatted HTTP logs that, coupled with appropriate Policy settings, they
couldn't bypass if they tried.

We use this setup to track the Internet usage of "older kids" in the
company. I assume you can't do this for some reason??

Cameron

 

[halteach]

The "kids" logon on to different lab machines so It has to be tied to
windows ids not the machine. Will what you describe provide this kind of
information?

hal

 

[Cameron Dorrough]

It will log each and every web site accessed and give you the IP address of
the machine they used and the date and time of the attempt. If you knew who
was using what PC when, you could track back that way.

It would take a bit more effort to track back, but would be less easy to
"crack" than the xcopy idea... but I can see now why Jerold made the
suggestion. Maybe a combination of both solutions??

Cameron