- WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SECURITY EVENT VIEWER LOGON HOW TO
- WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SECURITY EVENT VIEWER LOGON CODE
256k (or larger) Maximum Security Log Size. Configure event log sizes: Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Event Log. The script I found doesn’t include these, but appears very easy to adjust to see those results too. Either find the policy that will be edited or create a new policy. In that case, these are the two Event IDs: Sometimes it takes a lot of research and time to just use someone else’s script and be done with it :)Īs pointed out, many people just lock their workstation rather than logging off/on.
WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SECURITY EVENT VIEWER LOGON HOW TO
The script doesn’t need any parameters to run, just asks for which PC, date range, if you want to only see failed logins (which I don’t for this scenario), and then how to display the information.
WINDOWS SERVER 2008 SECURITY EVENT VIEWER LOGON CODE
This all started to get too hard, and I couldn’t get my head around the code or get it to work!įinally, I found someone who’d created a very nice script that did everything I wanted: Security Log Logon/Logoff Event Reporter The filtering in particular requires some crazy syntax.” Then I read this Technet article – PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs which backed up what I was experiencing, such as “ The bad: All of a sudden reading event logs gets complicated. I used Get-Eventlog as it seemed to be a bit easier to get the data I needed…. There are two commands I found for this – Get-EventLog and Get-WinEvent. One way of doing this is of course, PowerShell. Now, you can filter the event viewer to those Event IDs using Event Viewer, but you can’t filter out all the noise around anything authenticating to and from the PC you’re investigating.
There’s an older Microsoft Technet article that covers this briefly called Tracking User Logon Activity Using Logon Events which has some useful information, includoing the Event IDs: Also, the user may have authenticated against multple DCs, or other scenarios such as an offline laptop user first logging in locally before being on the network.Ī PC keeping only it’s own security logs will go back a lot further (over a month hopefully!) so there’s a lot of data to obtain. Logon and Logoff events on a domain will be logged against the closest domain controller, but unless you’re piping these logs elsewhere (which I briefly talked about here on Tech Target), the DC’s logs will quickly fill up and cycle off. If you’re looking at multiple users or multiple events, the task gets tedious very quickly. On a larger scale though, this doesn’t make sense. If you’re looking for a particular event at a particular time, you can browse through manually with a bit of filtering in the Event Viewer GUI and find what you need. Logon and Logoff events for a PC running Vista or above are logged to the Security section of Event Viewer.
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