Logon Notification

[trevorwilliams2]

Is there a way to have Windows Server 2003 notify me via email when a specific remote desktop user logs on?

Thanks!

 

[mrdenny]

You would have to add a login script to their account and have that login script run something which could email you.

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[58sniper]

That might not work. Imagine if the user connects to a resource that's already logged in. No logon script runs. If they then disconnect (instead of logging off), then reconnect later, same issue applies.

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[trevorwilliams2]

any 3rd party software that might do this?

 

[mrdenny]

This is true, my technique only works on login, not connection to an existing session. To bypass this you'd have to configure disconnected sessions to terminate automatically.

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[micahdaniel]

Also, you could use winexit and group policy to auto logoff users after a preset timeout. See

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314999

for info on the winexit.scr.

Put winexit.scr on all systems and make a policy to configure it.