Network software to see who is logged into the domain

[alfatec]

Hi,

What are people using to see who is logged in to the workstations on their domains. Just interested when we go to a vanilla

domain setup.

[eyetea]

Hi,

What are people using to see who is logged in to the workstations on their domains. Just interested when we go to a vanilla

domain setup.

 

On the DC: Computer Management > Shared Folders > Open Sessions lets me know (I think!)

[6Foot2]

Are you planning to deploy any classroom management software on your new vanilla network? We use Impero although other packages will also do what you are looking for here.

[alfatec]

We use PDQ deploy for deploying software. Very good. What I am after is a piece of software that shows who is currently logged on to the network so that when I shutdown at the end of the day

I don't shutdown logged on users.

[LeMarchand]

We use PDQ deploy for deploying software. Very good. What I am after is a piece of software that shows who is currently logged on to the network so that when I shutdown at the end of the day

I don't shutdown logged on users.

 

How will you know if they're actually active users? Most of the "sinners" I know just walk away leaving their machines logged on and usually unlocked.

[Norphy]

It's not free or even particularly cheap but Userlock will do what you want.

 

It is an excellent piece of software, well worth the money in my opinion

 

http://www.isdecisions.com/products/userlock/

[Asgard]

We have a bit of code that runs on login and puts a text file in a file share : we approach this for two reasons

 

1. Students can't login to more than one workstation at at time (te file is deleted on logout)

 

2.

We can see if they are logged in

 

We also log their login activity to a SQL database as part of the same process so we can report if ever asked "was johnny logged in as he didn't turn up for lesson "

 

Happy to share the code if you like

[FN-GM]

Maybe you could try this? - Script to Record Computer Usage - Blogs - EduGeek.net

[Asgard]

Virtually identical to ours

[bashy]

The script might require manual input?

[bashy]

http://support.adminarsenal.com/entries/22558781-Scheduled-deployment-Wake-on-Lan-and-Shutdown-after-deployment

 

This should work with pdq deploy

[themightymrp]

We run a similar scripting method to FN-GM's above but ours are written in VB as opposed to .BAT

 

Still provides the same data though