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We have a remote user that is doing the least amount of work possible, and for purposes of writing that employee up, I was wondering if there is a good way to track their active time on the computer? I think they have the computer asleep most of the day and I was hoping to find a way to track that? It’s a windows 11 machine.

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This seems like speculation and whims, but I guess you are asking for a way to (dis)prove this either way.

You’ll need to be able to access the device, so a VPN connection and remote PowerShell session would do.

Powercfg /sleepstudy

will show the machines awake, sleep, on, standby etc history - it wont show if the machine is active or not, you’d need to look at other options for that, but it will confirm if the device is sleeping.

You could also check email history - are they sending many, are they logging on to file shares or other company resources?

If they have access to any 365 content, use the azure logs to see their logins and session activity.

Check VPN logs.

If you want deeper auditing, you’re going to need something installed on that device.

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wow…that’s a neat report, never heard of that one. Thanks!

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That is a great report. I am bookmarking that one…

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Do you think you can automate it and run it against all the computers in AAD? Maybe spit out a report and then put it in Power BI like a dashboard?

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Hey, you can use the tools like Monday.com, Hubstaff, Workstatus, Time Doctor for tracking the active time of that user. These softwares can give you an extra eyes to check whether the user is active on the device or not as these tools can help you in tracking the URL they visits, total active screen time and also it captures the screenshot of the screen every 5-10 minutes.