How to Monitor User Logons in Active Directory Domain
Confusingly users don’t log on with their User Logon Name (Usually, but they can if they wanted to) from all the way back to NT4 we have logged on with the DOMAIN-NAME\USER-NAME format which uses the sAMAccountName, NOT the User Logon Name. If you look at the very first picture at the top of the page you can see that below the UPN. TSE Logon Insert a valid CAC and click below to access the virtual desktop. You must first register your CAC before you can login with it. Login With CAC 339 CAC Login Register Your CAC for Logon Use Home - Welcome to Kinetic by Windstream
Domain Admins can obviously undo this, but it's more about enforcing best practice on some of your most trusted IT staff. Scenario 2 - You want to restrict "Little Johnnie" to just a few computers. You could also use "Log On To". Alternatively put "Little Johnnie" in Domain Guests and remove them from Domain …
Domain\User is the "old" logon format, called down-level logon name. Also known by the names SAMAccountName and pre-Windows 2000 logon name. User@Domain.com is a UPN - User Principal Name. It's the "preferred", newer logon format. It's an Internet-style login name, that should map to the user email name. (Ref. at MSDN) PowerShell: Get Last Domain Logon with Get-ADUserLastLogon
User logon auditing is the only way to detect all unauthorized attempts to log in to a domain. It’s necessary to audit logon events — both successful and failed — to detect intrusion attempts, even if they do not cause any account lockouts.
Nov 02, 2014