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Apart from trailing through the event logs, Windows Server doesn’t include any easy, built-in way to find out which users are logged in locally to a server. It’s often useful for system administrators to know which users are logged in locally to a server or just remotely accessing resources, whether for troubleshooting purposes, reporting or some other kind of investigation. In this Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to find out which users are accessing remote resources and which are logged in locally.
Fortunately it’s easy to get a list of remote users accessing server resources. Start by opening a command prompt with local administrator permissions. These instructions will work on all currently supported versions of Windows Server.
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A list of users, and the IP addresses from which they are accessing resources on the server, will be displayed.
To get a list of users logged in locally to a server, we’ll need to use psloggedon, a tool that can be downloaded free from Microsoft’s website. Once the PS tools are downloaded, extract the zip folder and copy psloggedon.exe to the directory where you want to run the tool.
This will display all the users logged on locally to the server and users accessing resources on the server but not logged on locally. Additionally, you can specify a computer name to list the users logged on to a remote server, replacing contosodc1 with the name of the remote server:
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psloggedon \\contosodc1
You can also search the network for a given user. Type the following command, replacing contosodc1admin with the username you want to search for:
psloggedon contosodc1admin
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