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The powers that be want to monitor uses activity and want to make sure that they’re working that work from home. They all are on a windows environment. I’m currently using Safetica but it seems like it seems like its not accurate and the support isn’t that great. Anyone have any solutions free or otherwise?

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I know CyberArk records rdp sessions, sadly FAR from free.

https://docs.cyberark.com/Product-Doc/OnlineHelp/PAS/Latest/en/Content/PASIMP/Monitoring-Privileged-Sessions.htm?TocPath=End%20User|Monitor%20Sessions|Classic%20Interface|_____1

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They’re using Windows. But RDP is involved somehow in a way that you haven’t explained. Maybe explain what your users do to connect to work so people can give you a way to monitor them. And what your bosses actually want. They want video? They want some kind of activity report based on some kind of recorded data? Bandwidth usage?

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My apologies. These are all users who are remote desktop users and some VPN into their own PCs at the office. They want what websites they’re looking at, what how long they have been active what time they login. We have 300 MBps here at our office. Easy usage and robust functionality.

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Hey @jimmy-t ​,

I understand you are looking to monitor your remote users for their activity as they are working from home. This can be done using an RMM tool like Pulseway , it can remotely monitor their log-on/-off time, their active sessions, remote control them, jump into their active sessions, fetch information about their disk space, CPU usage, etc.

See if Pulseway suits your needs. Good luck!

@Pulseway

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You perhaps need to ask exactly what is to be monitored and what format the data is to be presented.

For example the web access - do you have a web filter in place currently? This would usually be done with a report from proxy/filter UTM firewall etc.
Logon/off connection times etc - you would need to pull data from different sources such as VPN, the PCs the remote into or local laptops etc and consolidate. Often a custom script is the simple way of doing this.
For the above two items what did you do when staff were office based? Location is not really a factor for capturing and presenting that data.

Or finally the extreme measure of monitoring their session - the thing with this is that it requires someone else to watch someone work - not very efficient. When they used to work in the office did someone stand behind the users watching them?

A sign of a great company is monitoring output and value.

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The Powershell script that I shared in Need a way to determine when and how long a user connected to RDP server would give you the login, logoff, disconnect, and reconnect times. But that information isn’t the most reliable for actual activity for the reasons mentioned in that post. In any event, you could modify the script to look at other events to get more of the information that you are looking for.