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Need a logon script to capture user information

Asked by: Mach1pro

we have Server 2008 and currently have a user logon vbscript that maps drives for the users based on their ad group assignment.  What I would like to add to this script is some lines of code that will capture the computer name of user, the ip of the computer they are logging in from and the date and time they logged in, then append this information to an ongoing log file

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2009-10-15 at 05:54:51ID24814604
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by: netcmhPosted on 2009-10-15 at 06:11:25ID: 25580103

Here is a VB script that will read the user name value from active directory and create (or append) a log file.
-The file is saved to a network share.
The file will note the username, computername, MAC address, and the date/time.

The script will also read though the file looking for the username and computername combination. If they are both already logged then the script will just exit since this user is just logging into the same computer again.
If only the computer name is found it will append the log file with the current user's name. This will keep the file from growing out of control.

I find this log helps me to quickly know who is on which computer. The add MAC address also allows me to create and DHCP reservations to the computer.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem")
 
'Get user info from Active Directory
 
Set objSysInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo")
 
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & objSysInfo.UserName)
 
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
For Each objItem In colItems
FullSearchString = objItem.Name & vbTab & objUser.CN
ComputerNameSearch = objItem.Name & vbTab
next
 
'Get Mac Address
 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * From Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration Where IPEnabled = True")
For Each objItem in colItems
NICInfo = objItem.MACAddress
Next
 
itemfound = false
	Const ForReading = 1
	Const ForWriting = 2
	Const ForAppending = 8
 
	Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
'Replace \\server\share with your shared folder
 
If objFSO.FileExists("\\server\share\ComputerNames.txt")= 0 Then
'File not found Create Log File
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("\\server\share\ComputerNames.txt", True) 
objFile.WriteLine("Computer:"& vbtab & "Name:" & vbtab & "MAC:" & vbtab & "Date:" & vbCrLf) 
objFile.Close
end if
 
'Replace \\server\share with your shared folder
'Read File to search
 
	Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\server\share\\Scripts\ComputerNames.txt", ForReading)
'objFile.ReadAll
StrContents = objFile.ReadAll
 
 
'Search for ComputerName and User Name
'If both Computer Name and User Name Found Exit
'Nothing to Log Exit Script.
 
		If InStr(strContents,FullSearchString) Then
		objFile.Close
		Wscript.Quit
else
 
'User and Computer name not logged yet. Log username and computername
 
If InStr(strContents,ComputerNameSearch) =0 then
objFile.Close
set objFileAppend = objFSO.OpenTextFile(\\server\share\\Scripts\ComputerNames.txt", ForAppending)
 
 
objfileAppend.Write FullSearchString & vbtab & NICInfo & vbtab & Date() & vbCrLf
objfileAppend.close
Wscript.Quit
end if
		end if
'                                  objFile.Close
 
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\server\share\ComputerNames.txt", ForReading)
		
 
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
	LineRead =objFile.ReadLine
 
				If InStr(LineRead,ComputerNameSearch)=0 Then
'Search for Just Computer Name
'Read log file line by line.  If computer name found skip that line.
'Save the log file line by line ignoring the line with the found computer name
NewText = NewText & Lineread & vbCrLf
	
else
itemfound = true
 
end if
loop
 
objfile.close
 
'You now have a fresh log file without this computername it it.
'Log User and Computer name to the log.
 
if itemfound = true then
Set objFilewrite = objFSO.OpenTextFile("\\server\share\ComputerNames.txt", ForWriting)
 
objfilewrite.Write NewText 
objfilewrite.Writeline  FullSearchString & vbtab & NICInfo  & vbtab & Date()
objfilewrite.close
Wscript.Quit
				end if
 
'End result is each computer will have online one line in the log, the last user who logged in.

                                              
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by: netcmhPosted on 2009-10-15 at 06:11:59ID: 25580112

Here's a bat file that will do the same.

The only problem is that it spits out ALL mac addresses instead of just the active one.

echo Username: %username% > "%temp%\logoninfo.txt"
echo Computername: %computername% >> "%temp%\logoninfo.txt"
echo Logon Time: %date% %time% >> "%temp%\logoninfo.txt
ipconfig /all | find /i "physical address" >> "%temp%\logoninfo.txt"
type "%temp%\logoninfo.txt" >> \\servername\share\log.txt

                                              
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by: netcmhPosted on 2009-10-15 at 06:12:37ID: 25580118

I personally use BGINFO.exe, It's a free MS util "http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb897557.aspx"

Add something like this to a login (or logout) script...
\\server\share\bginfo.exe \\server\share\bginfo.bgi /SILENT /timer:0 /NOLICPROMPT

The bginfo.bgi is an 'ini' file that has all the settings in - including the ability to dump the output to an excel sheet or a database.

The result that I use is an excel sheet with date/username/machine name/os/login server/mac/ip/memoryconfig/etc/etc.... that is always up to date automatically.

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