How to monitor IE usage by user ( who went where when )?

[ineloquucius]

Anyone know a simple and elegant solution for this? I'd like to be able to refer to some log to see who went where and when. Not the spying type, but users have been abusing the internet connection, and trying to filter out "bad" content is useless.

I'd hoped to find something simple in a sniffing type solution, and have found none. But users surf the web from a single windows 2003 terminal server, so I should be able to use a client based software solution without too much hassle.

Thanks.

 

[somedea]

Don't know what firewall you use, but at my last job, I was able to use the log files on my Watchguard firewall.

 

[FloDiggs]

There are some pretty good appliances out these days from WebSense and Barracuda. They are relatively easy to configure and provide pretty robust reporting. There are some other good appliances as well, but those were the first two that came to mind.

 

[dlano]

What's your budget. We use St. Bernard Iprism for web filtering. It does a terrific job. There are Open source solutions as well. Here's link to Dans Guardian, the open source solution.

http://dansguardian.org/

d|ano

 

[tfg13]

Try using this:

faq779-6302

I haven't tried using it on IE7, so I don't know if it works. Basically, save the code as a .vbs, and run it on the terminal server. It will parse the entire index.dat files of every user on the terminal server, and provide you with an html with the information you want to know, broken down by user.