Hi Everyone I would just like to know whether anyone knows of any software / application that I can use to monitor the activities of my users. And by monitoring I mean a reporting tool that will tell me what files people accessed, which sites etc. To explain in more detail: Say you have an 8 hour day. Then how much was spent accessing say Excel files, how much on websites, if you get my drift? I've looked in previous posts but could not find anything. Thanks in advance

Did you search the site? http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/... Just out of curiosity, what will you do with this information once you have it? Life's more painless for the brainless.

Hi Jennifer Thanks very much for your reply. I'll have a look at it right now. The reason for it is that my Manager wants to know which files people access, which websites they view (or more accurately, websites he does not want them to visit) etc. We don't want to go checking each and every machine for say the Internet history to see what sites they visited. That's why a reporting tool would be ideal so that we can remotely or through some sort of reporting see what people are accessing. The idea is to then make decisions to decide which files to deny access to and exactly which sites we people can visit etc. The thing is that all the users have their own laptop and we hardly get a chance to go through each and every laptop. Hope this all makes sense to you. Anything you'll like to add??? The usual issue of user privacy etc is not an issue because they all signed consent forms that we may view and monitor their work in whichever way 'IT' feels is appropriated. Maybe to make things easier - Is there a way that SBS 2003 can report which files were accessed, by who and when or something in that line? Thanks again

i use IE network spy. It is a simple vbs file. It only does webpages. But if you need to monitor many users you will need a costly product. Something like IE spy works fine if you suspect a user. Even if he deleted history it will not effect ie spy. google it ... since i cant paste the code here or attach a vbs. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscr...