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Posted by Brian Cryer on March 2, 2006, 12:22 pm
Please log in for more thread options Thanks Roger. Looks like I'll have to look into some sort of proxy software.
> The DNS server cache will show what names have been resolved
> since the last DNS server start event or cache clearing (this assumes
> all machines use only those DNS services).
> Other than that there really is not anything built into Windows servers
> for this (although there is in Small Business Server 2003). Use of a
> proxy device, like ISA Server, is a more normal way to get this type
> of information (and to control usage).
> There are quite a few for-$, shareware, and freeware apps that are
> designed for parents to examine machines (for history, IE cache, etc.)
> that could be used on a machine by machine basis. There probably
> are some that are network-aware for peeking into sets of machines.
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>> Our MD has asked me to investigate monitoring of web usage. What is
>> required by "monitoring" here isn't defined but I think the main thrust
>> is to identify if there is any significant non-business usage. Before I
>> go looking at third party software, does Windows 2003 server provide any
>> facilities that would help here? For example all our DNS requests go via
>> one of two Windows 2003 Standard servers, so is it feasible to log
>> requests?
>>
>> Any suggestions either in terms of how Windows 2003 standard server
>> facilities could help or experience with third party products would be
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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