Logon report = punchclock

Hi,

My boss wants me to send him a report every morning with the names and times that employees have logged onto the network.

Is there a simple way to generate a report in Win2k server and email it to him?

Thanks!

 

Hi Scrub and welcome.

The answer to your question is yes or maybe or huh. The huh is because I'm not really sure what 'logging onto a network' means.

If you have a domain, you can certainly trap that info as people log in and set up a task to email it at some point during the day.

If you have a peer (workgroup) network, then folks can log on to their local PC but there is no central validation of the logon so without some fancy footwork, you can't get the info.

 

Thanks for replying.

By "logging on" I simply mean when they start their day, they sit down at their machine (running XPP) and log onto our domain by typing in their username and password. (That connects them with the Exchange server and shared folders).

How would I go about, as you suggest, trapping this info and have it emailed?

Thanks for your help.

Scrub

 

Get the Windows 2000 resource kit. The usrstat.exe will generate the sort of report you want. Another one, ggrep (similar to the grep unix search tool) will allow you to restrict the search if you want.