Tracking user log ins and outs

[Guest]

Where can I go to see the history of users logging in and out on the network?

 

[myweb]

Hello pkerr,

On your default domain controller policy you have to enable account logging.
Then you can see it in the event log from your domain controller.

Best regards

myweb
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[MLebeau]

3rd party logging tools is also the way to go. Another way is some
complex solutions like 'desktop authority' (http://www.scriptlogic.com).

I'm familiar with this utility - we use it in our environment.
It has a very powerful logging and reporting abilities. DA uses sql
database for collecting and storing such kind of information.
Creating a reports it's quite an easy task - you can choose from
predefined ones or create your own with necessary parameters.
For example, most of all we use reports about users logging (date,
time, domain, computer, user, event type and etc).

Firwin is correct, Desktop Authority from ScriptLogic will log
information on user activity in a manner that you can report on the
user activity on a particular workstation or across all workstations.
Even moreso, you can report on who has logged onto a computer and
when.

Desktop Authority pulls this information at logon and constantly
throughout the day capturing the logon/lock/unlock/logoff activity
with the associated details. Because it is initiated by the user
logging on, unless the user manages to kill the Desktop Authority
Agent, the information in captured and transmitted to a SQL database
for reporting.

As long as the user has the ScriptLogic logon script specified as the
logon script of choice, the agent is self maintaining and needs little
administrator action to garner this information.

Try it out at www.scriptlogic.com