Logging users in Terminal Services

[Guest_imported]

Is there a way to log the users that use Terminal Services? My goal is to track the time on and duration of a user working from home connecting to the network through Terminal Services.

 

[skertz]

If using Citrix..you could purchase the RMS product.

But for a quick easy home-grown solution. One, obtain a shareware program named sleep.exe and now.exe

Then write a batch file with the following:


:Begin
now.exe >> c:\temp\logins.txt
quser >> c:\temp\logins.txt
sleep 60
goto begin


That's it. The now.exe will just display the time. The quser will display all the logged-in users sessions. The sleep will just wait for the 60 second interval and then you're back in the loop. You could also turn this into a service using the microsoft Resource Kit: srvany.exe command to start automatically.

Then you can pretty much use perl scripts or something else to parse the information for you. There's probably other utilities to that will parse the information directly from the Security logs too.