Vista - See who is logged in on a remote computer.

I'm trying to put together a script to see who is logged in on a remote
computer on my domain. Below is a sample of what I've found, but it only
works on certain computers, not all of them. Does .NET have to be installed
on these machines for this to work?


<code>
#whologon.ps1
$a = Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"
$strComputer = "$a"
$Var = GWMI -Computer $strComputer -CL Win32_ComputerSystem
"Machine Name: " + $Var.Name + " User Name: " + $Var.UserName
</code>


The below works for all machines, why doesn't the above?

<code>
$a= Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"
$compy = $a
$server="$compy"
$process=[System.Diagnostics.Process]
$process::GetProcesses($server)
</code>

Hello Pedro,


Try PsLoggedOn.exe from SysInternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897545.aspx


PS > psloggedon -l -x \\computerName

Users logged on locally:
NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE
NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
DOMAIN\ShayL
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM




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Shay Levy
Windows PowerShell
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/ScriptFanatic

P> I'm trying to put together a script to see who is logged in on a
P> remote computer on my domain. Below is a sample of what I've found,
P> but it only works on certain computers, not all of them. Does .NET
P> have to be installed on these machines for this to work?
P>
P> <code>
P> #whologon.ps1
P> $a = Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"
P> $strComputer = "$a"
P> $Var = GWMI -Computer $strComputer -CL Win32_ComputerSystem
P> "Machine Name: " + $Var.Name + " User Name: " + $Var.UserName
P> </code>
P> The below works for all machines, why doesn't the above?
P>
P> <code>
P> $a= Read-Host "Enter Machine Name"
P> $compy = $a
P> $server="$compy"
P> $process=[System.Diagnostics.Process]
P> $process::GetProcesses($server)
P> </code>

You could query the security event logs on your DCs for Event ID: 680:

through DCOM with a "System.Diagnostics.EventLog" object

-or-

via WMI via Win32_NTLogEvent

-JW

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