Server 2003 reporting Services 1

[cxtreme404]

Can anyone suggest in an ms server 2003 domain environment, whether users can obtain domain login history info and how is it done?

 

[58sniper]

That would be through auditing, and would show up in the event logs. An average user wouldn't have access to that.

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[bTkalternate]

There are applications that check AD for username last log on so the domain. If you want to do it yourself then you have to check last logon on each DC as the user may have authenticated against server x but you check server y (hope you understand me).
There's vbs scripts that can also do this but I didn't really trust them to use for diciplinary action against an employee.

If you are just worried about history of a single server then the event log will show this. But the security event log fills up quickly.

What are you wanting to achieve exactly? Maybe there's another way.

b

 

[pagy]

Actually in Windows 2003 the lastlogontimestamp attribute is replicated between domain controllers, but it is only replicated once every 14 days.

Administrators typically use a script to find this information from active directory, an example of such a script can be found here;

http://techtasks.com/code/viewbookcode/1607

Or use auditing as 58sniper suggests

Or answer the question that bTkalternate asks and tell us what you need to achieve....

Paul
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[Roadki11]

I actually wrote a logon and logoff script that grabs the date, time, host name, user id, and whether they logged on or logged off and inserts that into a sql database. I put the scripts in the default domain policy so it affects everyone. I then created a couple crystal reports to make it all pretty and useful. The price was right and did what i needed.



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