monitoring

[marc]

How do you go about monitoring when a user logs on and off?

Well management wants to monitor when employees log on to their computers in
the morning. They want a sense of when an employee is there at work.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

How do you go about monitoring when a user logs on and off?

Well management wants to monitor when employees log on to their computers in
the morning. They want a sense of when an employee is there at work.

You could insert this single line into your logon script:

echo %date% %time:~0,5% %ComputerName% %UserName% >>
\\YourServer\SomeShare\SomeFolder\logon.log

This works fine for up to around 20 users. Above this number it
becomes unreliable because of the increased probability of two
users attempting to access logon.log at the same time, causing
sharing conflicts.

The log off event is much harder to monitor. How should Windows
know whether an employee is in a meeting, on the phone, has gone
home without logging off or has fallen asleep on the job?