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OK So here is the situation:
We have a number of laptops in our organisation. A percentage of the users of these laptops, we beleive never take the laptops out of the building or even out of the docking station. Due to the price difference between laptops and desktops, we want to issue these users with desktops and take away and re-issue their laptops. Due to the political hot potatoe that this has turned into, I need a way to prove whether or not, machines are being used of off the network.
Anybody got any suggestions?
I am thinking I could script something to look for an even entry or the registry entry, but didnt know what to look for. I was hoping there was something that says - Tried to log on to normal network domain, failed, logged on locally.
Can anyone help?
Kip
1What about laptops that are used out of the office, but aren't ever connected to other networks? We have a number of users who have long commutes to/from work on trains, some of them use laptops to write long documents, or read long documents, or catch up on (previously downloaded) emails. They are all used extensively out of the office but wouldn't be caught by any tool inspecting wireless connections etc. – GAThrawn – 2009-09-09T16:33:22.627
The worst of it is, if the users find out you're doing this, they'll change their behavior to make it look like they do go home with the laptops. – Michael Kohne – 2009-09-10T17:04:13.810
typo: change "of off" to "off of" – davr – 2009-09-10T17:06:46.723