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Gavin Rumble - 16 Dec 2005 03:01 GMT

Everyone who has ever waded into the Event Viewer looking for a record of
employee/contractor login/logout times must share my frustration at the
uselessness of that tool. Nuf said.

So, hasn't anyone ever written a simple script to create an ACTUAL
login/logout database for monitoring employee/contractor usage? I just want
to know what time they get here and login, and what time they log out and go
home...

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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] - 16 Dec 2005 03:29 GMT

Will this work for you Gavin?

Lazy man's way to track user logon/logoff
http://msmvps.com/blogs/kwsupport/archive/2005/02/24/36942.aspx

Group Policy Management on SBS 2000
http://www.smallbizserver.net/Default.aspx?tabid=186

It logs:

"Logon" or "Logoff"
Username, Computer, Day, Date, Time of logon or logoff

The output is a text file that can be imported into an Excel spreadsheet for
easier viewing and manipulation.

Typical log...

logoff dadmin SERVER1 Tue 10/11/2005 15:37:00.66
logon dadmin SERVER1 Tue 10/11/2005 19:44:44.58
logoff dadmin SERVER1 Tue 10/11/2005 19:45:42.03
logon dadmin SERVER1 Thu 10/13/2005 13:35:05.31
logon adillerie E7SNBM41 Thu 10/13/2005 14:27:29.83
logon arosser EHNBM41 Thu 10/13/2005 14:27:38.80
logon bcomerin EB4NBM41 Thu 10/13/2005 14:27:59.53
logoff arosser EHNBM41 Thu 10/13/2005 14:48:03.99

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> Everyone who has ever waded into the Event Viewer looking for a record of
> employee/contractor login/logout times must share my frustration at the
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Gavin Rumble - 19 Dec 2005 03:54 GMT

That is Outstanding! Perfect, simple, and foolproof. Thank you, thank you,
thank you....thank you.

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> Will this work for you Gavin?
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] - 22 Dec 2005 02:07 GMT

You're welcome ;-)
and thanks Merv for remembering my blog for Gavin!

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> That is Outstanding! Perfect, simple, and foolproof. Thank you, thank
> you,
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Merv Porter [SBS-MVP] - 22 Dec 2005 02:50 GMT

I've go that one bookmarked Kevin. Using it on 4 sites now. Really glad
you blogged it. :-)

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> You're welcome ;-)
> and thanks Merv for remembering my blog for Gavin!
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