Track Terminal Service connections?

bwillford

Running server 2003 standard..

We have users that Remote desktop into a windows 2003 server daily. I am hoping for some way to tell how long their sessions are active. I can use Event Viewer to track logon's but we need to be able to tell how long a user was connected.

Any help?

Thanks.

jmritenour

There are a lot of quick and dirty ways, but if you want something that looks presentable, this program claims to do it. I've never used it myself, but I know others who've had success with it.

Myself, I just create text files like named logon.cmd & logoff.cmd:

---logon.cmd---
echo logon %username% %computername% %date% %time% >>
x:\logon.log

---logoff.cmd---
echo logoff %username% %computername% %date% %time% >>
x:\logon.log

And then set them as logon/logoff scripts in the user configuration section of the local group policy on the terminal server. It's ugly, but it works.