Who logged into the windows 2003 server and when.

Please follow the steps to achieve your GOAL.

This is a great little batch file that enables an admin to keep a log of where, when and what computer user log on to and when they log off.
1.       Set up a Share on the network.
The batch file is actually two files. One runs at user log on and one runs at useer log off. When the batch files run, they create a rolling log file with the details in a shared network folder.
1) Create a shared folder on the network. Mine is called Logs. Everyone should have full access to this share.
2) In that folder, create a folder called User and a folder called computer.       
2.       Create the batch files.
Copy and Paste the following into two separate text files. When you save them, remember to change the file type to .bat
Name: Log On.bat
rem The following line creates a rolling log file of usage by workstation
echo Log In %Date% %TIME% %USERNAME% >> \\servername\Logs\Computer\%COMPUTERNAME%.log
rem The following line creates a rolling log file of usage by user
echo Log In %Date% %TIME% %COMPUTERNAME% >> \\servername\Logs\User\%USERNAME%.log
Name: Log Off.bat
rem The following line creates a rolling log file of usage by workstation
echo Log Off %Date% %TIME% %USERNAME% >> \\servername\Logs\Computer\%COMPUTERNAME%.log
rem The following line creates a rolling log file of usage by user
echo Log Off %Date% %TIME% %COMPUTERNAME% >> \\servername\Logs\User\%USERNAME%.log
Put these files in the Logs folder.      
3.       Add the batch files to group policy.
You do this on your User Container GPO.
User Configuration > Windows Settings > Scripts
Add Log In.bat to the Logon scripts box and Log Off.bat to the Logoff scripts box      


Ref: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/82

Hope it will help u, plz check and revert

Thanks maniksaha, I was hoping to achieve my goal using the data from the event viewer. As it is the enterprise admins, and domain admins from other domains that i am trying to track. Because it is another domain i cannot edit their domain GPO. Any ideas?

MooqControls,

I understand you are looking to extract this data from the Even Viewer howerver here is something I have used. It is vbscript that will write a text file (same locatoin as the vbs) with user, computer and run time. I placed this in my server start up menus so it runs at every login and appends to the file. The logged text file will look like this:

Current Date: ,Thursday, April 02, 2009 @ 6:51:40 PM
Current User: ,DomainName\username
Computer Name: ,Servername

Then I would check the text file once a day to view the logins and keep the text file for reference.

JW

Set oNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oWS = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
 
sCurrentUser = oNet.UserName
sDomain = oNet.UserDomain
sComputer = oNet.ComputerName
 
sScriptName = WScript.ScriptName
sScriptPath = WScript.ScriptFullName
sLog = Replace(sScriptName, ".vbs", ".log")
sLogFile = Replace(sScriptPath, sScriptName, sLog)
 
Set oLogFile = oFS.OpenTextFile(sLogFile, 8, True)
 
 
Function CurrentDateTime()
	CurrentDateTime = FormatDateTime(now, vbLongDate) & " @ " & FormatDateTime(now, vbLongTime)
End Function
 
	oLogFile.WriteLine "Current Date: " & "," & CurrentDateTime
	oLogFile.WriteLine "Current User: " & "," & sDomain & "\" & sCurrentUser
	oLogFile.WriteLine "Computer Name: " & "," & sComputer
	oLogFile.WriteLine VbCrLf

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