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Dave
Asked: 2011-10-22 11:25:40 +0800 CST

How to tell where user account is logged in

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In a windows 2003/2008 mixed domain, is it possible to find out where on the network a particular account is logged into?

The account keeps getting locked out, and we think the account may be logged in somewhere, but we don't know where.

active-directory user-accounts

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  1. Best Answer

    Sounds like you want the Account Lockout tools

    http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=18465

    Allows you to run a query against a domain controller's security logs to search for particular users - for example, to show where the failure audits are coming from.

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  2. You can use UPing tool. http://sourceforge.net/projects/uping/ It collects information about users logons to database (just put uping.exe to startup script). And after that you can query the database jussk like ping: uping

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  3. If you wanted, you can store the current logged in user and write it to AD. This would allow you to easily search for it in the future. Here is a short guide:

    http://deployhappiness.com/find-out-what-computer-a-user-logged-into/

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