Seeing users Internet History

[douggy]

Is there a way of logging onto to Small Business Server and getting a report on the internet history for a particular user??

Thanks
Mark

 

[ShackDaddy]

No, there is not a direct way to do this.

But you can do this indirectly by connecting to a user's drive while on the server console.

You might do this:

\\workstation4\c$

And then navigate down into the user's profile to where their history is stored:

C:\Documents and Settings\johnsmith\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\

In the index.dat file that is there, you will find the URLs of sites that the user has gone to. The file is not straight text, so there will also be a lot of garbage if you open it with notepad.

If you use the IE History tool at

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html,

you can actually view the history in a more readable format. Note that there is no protection against the user clearing their history file unless you have some sort of scheduled job to copy their history directory to another location to preserve it...

Hope this helps.

Dave Shackelford
Shackelford Consulting