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Ziplin Ziplin 2 2 gold badges 4 4 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Michael Lowman Michael Lowman 3, 18 18 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. Michael, query is not packaged for non-server Windows. Where can do download it? Or is there an alternative? Use the eventvwr to remotely view the security log for the remote computer, and scroll through the security logs until you find a login event for the other user: eventvwr [remote computer name without brackets].

Ziplin, I've got access denied. How can I enable access on the server side? Martyn Weber Martyn Weber 61 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge.

Jordan W. Very cool. I didn't specify, but it is a remote user who is blocking me from login. Good tip though, Jordan. Henry Henry 41 1 1 bronze badge. Matt Matt 2 2 gold badges 2 2 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. This just comes back with "Unable to connect to server". Don't know if that's why this got down voted or not. Yeah, I don't know either.

I use this all the time to see who didn't log out and to see who is still in a server. When you run which one? They beat me to the answer by a long shot You guys nailed it! Event Viewer even though it has already been said Yeah the security log can get kinda full depending on which events you are auditing.

Right click the security event log and select "Filter Current log. This should make it a bit easier for you to track down the user. I have just recently had to do this as well, I exported the logs and used Log Parser Studio to parse the logs. How about you just look at the last changed value of the user profiles - why make it harder than it has to be?

These logs ought be offloaded regularly to a secured log server or other media for safekeeping. To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Best Answer. View this "Best Answer" in the replies below ». Popular Topics in General Windows. Spiceworks Help Desk.

The help desk software for IT. Track users' IT needs, easily, and with only the features you need. The command returns the name of the user logged on to the computer. The following command will return the logged-in username from the remote computer:. PowerShell Script to Find Logged On Users on Remote Computers If you want to collect information about logged-in users from multiple computers, you can use the following PowerShell function to get usernames.

You can get the names of users logged on the computers in an Active Directory domain. Use the Get-ADComputer cmdlet to get the list of computers in the domain. In the example below, we will get the usernames logged on active computers in the specific domain OU. In order to make the script work faster prior to accessing a remote computer, I added a check of its availability using ICMP ping and the Test-NetConnection cmdlet :. Also, note that you can store the name of the logged-on user in the computer properties in AD.

You can find a user computer using a simple query to Active Directory:.