New to PowerShell, new to AD
What I would like to do is enter a users windows ID for a user who is logged
on to a domain and have the computer name returned. Is this possible?
Pointers on how to accomplish this would be welcomed.

In message <E5DA4356-CB81-4FE3-B4A9-5AD31C5576B5@xxxxxx>, DanF
<DanF@xxxxxx> writes

>New to PowerShell, new to AD
>What I would like to do is enter a users windows ID for a user who is logged
>on to a domain and have the computer name returned. Is this possible?
>Pointers on how to accomplish this would be welcomed.

You can't do it.

First, there really is no concept of someone who is logged in, at least
from the domain persepective. The client knows it's logged in (it has a
secure connection - IPC$ - to the DC) but the DC does not keep track of
who's logged in at the current moment. It gets more complex in multi-dc
environnments where one DC logs you on, and another responds to the
query. Finally, the DC does not keep track of which system you are
logged in on (you could be logged in to several - As I write this, I'm
logged to my laptop, my workstation, two servers and a DC twice (once on
the box and once via TS).

HTH.
--
Thomas Lee
doctordns@xxxxxx

I forget whose blog I saw this on but someone has a script to update the
computer description field with a logon script when a user logs on.

That way you can query AD on the description field to find a user. It's
probably the easiest method I've seen to track logged on users.



"DanF" wrote:

> New to PowerShell, new to AD
> What I would like to do is enter a users windows ID for a user who is logged
> on to a domain and have the computer name returned. Is this possible?
> Pointers on how to accomplish this would be welcomed.
>

In message <A6FA0629-B1B1-468C-9D66-4759D4EEB458@xxxxxx>,
PaulChavez <PaulChavez@xxxxxx> writes

>I forget whose blog I saw this on but someone has a script to update the
>computer description field with a logon script when a user logs on.

That would sort of work. But it would be not totally accurate - there's
no way to ensure this is up to date. If a user shuts the lid on a laptop
or pulls power on a desktop - there's no way to track that.

>That way you can query AD on the description field to find a user. It's
>probably the easiest method I've seen to track logged on users.

To some degree, using OCS would be better (assuming all users were
logged into communicator.

Thomas
--
Thomas Lee
doctordns@xxxxxx
MVP - Admin Frameworks and Security

Got WINS?

"DanF" wrote:

> New to PowerShell, new to AD
> What I would like to do is enter a users windows ID for a user who is logged
> on to a domain and have the computer name returned. Is this possible?
> Pointers on how to accomplish this would be welcomed.
>

Got WINS?

"DanF" wrote:

> New to PowerShell, new to AD
> What I would like to do is enter a users windows ID for a user who is logged
> on to a domain and have the computer name returned. Is this possible?
> Pointers on how to accomplish this would be welcomed.
>