Need Automatic Attendance Tracking by Logon/Logoff

Does anyone know of any software that Automatically Records the logon/logoff
times of users for the purpose of attendance or time tracking.

I have a Windows Server 2003 SBS SP1 with about 8 XP SP2 Pro workstations.
I want to be able to have the Office manager be able to easily view all the
logon and logoff times for all the employees in one central location.

I don't want them to have to logon or punch into a separate time tracking
system.

I see that it if employee logon hours are set from the server that I can go
back through the server's event viewer and find logon times. I have seen some
programming examples for automatically parsing the event viewer for this data.

Are there any out of the box solutions? (Spent 2 hours looking online with
no luck) Please help. Thanks.

 

Take a look at Softrack. You can find it at www.softwaremetering.com. I
think they give free online web demos (one on one) to answer your specific
questions. I think you can get reports that you're looking for.

 

I have done the same thing:

login.bat = echo %username% logged on to %computername% on %date% at %time%
and

logoff.bat = echo %username% logged off %computername% on %date% at %time%
This produces a running list of logon/logoff times for the user for as long
as you care to run it.

Of course, there's no reason to apply this script to your own account - your
%username%.txt file should be manually editied.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

Thanks Setup in Group Policy for the relevant Users. Works Great.

 

Sometimes the 'old fashioned' way works best. Go get 'em, Adam!

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP