Lots of suggestions on how to do this but the first thought that came to my mind was how strongly do you have to guarantee the accuracy of your information?
Finding out when someone logged on is an audit item, you enable auditing and collect the logs. Proving that someone is STILL logged on and active is tougher. User could be hibernated or had their machine unplugged or any number of things. So you have to go back to their machine and actually have it tell you if the user is logged on. That is much more involved than the auditing and auditing is not the really all that easy if you have a lot of DCs or a lot of events. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rocky Habeeb Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:35 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Proving a User is logged on to the domain Gentlemen, Is there a preferred and/or easy way to prove that a User has logged on to the Domain and is currently operating (ie: able to access resources)? The question is not whether he can get to a resource or not, but only that he has successfully logged in to a domain from some computer and is considered live on the Domain? I have not been able to figure that out yet. By the way, Happy Thanksgiving to all this day!! Thanks. RH _____________________________ Rocky Habeeb Microsoft Systems Administrator James W. Sewall Company Old Town, Maine Voice: 207.827.4456 Ext. 387 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jws.com _____________________________ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
