View User logon time in Active Directory

[Guest vat2do@gmail.com]

Hello!

 

Is there any way in windows server 2003 AD to view the log for, How

long a user logon on its account in a given time spell, lets say in a

day or month.

 

Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

 

Regards

[Guest Richard Mueller [MVP]]

Re: View User logon time in Active Directory

 

 

<vat2do@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:194a0e0c-1ea4-4889-9515-7d4a93d13c77@y5g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

> Hello!

>

> Is there any way in windows server 2003 AD to view the log for, How

> long a user logon on its account in a given time spell, lets say in a

> day or month.

>

> Your quick response will be highly appreciated.

 

This information is not tracked in Active Directory or the logs. Even if you

turned on auditing you would have a lot of work analyzing log files to get

this information.

 

However, you can use logon and logoff scripts to track information. I have

an example VBScript logon script that writes user name, computer name,

date/time, and IP address to a log file linked here:

 

http://www.rlmueller.net/Logon5.htm

 

You can have a similar logoff script (configured in Group Policy) write

date/times of logoff. Then you can load a copy of the log file into a

spreadsheet program for analysis. One line is appended to the shared log

file for each logon and logoff. In Excel you can filter on users or

computers.

 

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Richard Mueller

Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI

Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net

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