I have been working with RDS since before it was called RDS, and something that absolutely every single customer asks for is the ability to report on which users are connecting to which RDSH servers. Ideally, they would like to be able to see, historically, a list of people logging in, and sometimes even some data about when the user logged off the server as well. The only information I have ever found natively inside Windows that can help with this information gathering is the Windows Security Event Logs, but those are extremely messy to try and weed through to find what you are looking for. It's definitely not worth the hassle. So what's the solution here? The easiest way I have found to record login and logout information is to build and utilize some scripts that will run during every user logon and logoff. This is quite simple to do on each of your RDSH servers; let's give it a try together so you can have an idea of what I typically do...
Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
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Overview of this book
<p>Windows Server 2016 is an operating system designed to run on servers. It supports enterprise-level data storage, communications, management, and applications. This book contains specially selected, detailed help on core, essential administrative tasks of Windows Server 2016.</p>
<p>This book starts by helping you to navigate the interface of Windows Server 2016, and quickly shifts gears to implementing roles that are necessarily in any Microsoft-centric datacenter.</p>
<p>This book will also help you leverage the web services platform built into Windows Server 2016, available to anyone who runs this latest and greatest Server operating system. Further, you will also learn to compose optimal Group Policies and monitor system performance and IP address management.</p>
<p>This book will be a handy quick-reference guide for any Windows Server administrator, providing easy to read, step-by-step instructions for many common administrative tasks that will be part of any Server Administrator’s job description as they administer their Windows Server 2016 powered servers.</p>
<p>The material in the book has been selected from the content of Packt's Windows Server 2016 Cookbook by Jordan Krause to provide a specific focus on key Windows Server administration tasks.</p>
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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
Learning the Interface
Core Infrastructure Tasks
Internet Information Services
Remote Desktop Services
Monitoring and Backup
Group Policy
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Index
Customer Reviews