I am an Administrator at a Community College. It is often required that students be given access to our servers to gain realworld experience. For shutdowns and restarts there is the Shutdown Event Tracker that requires a reason be given for why the shutdown or restart is occuring. Is there a logon version that can be enabled which will require that the students provide a description of the reason they are logging on? Using Windows Server 2008 R2.

Hi, Shutdown Event Tracker provides a way for IT professionals to consistently track why users restart or shut down their computers. It does not document why users choose other options, such as Log off or Hibernate. It gathers the reasons users provide for restarts and shutdowns to help create a comprehensive picture of an organization's system environment. For details: Shutdown Event Tracker Overview http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753185.aspx Description of the Shutdown Event Tracker http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293814 What exactly do you want? Is there a logon version that can be enabled which will require that the students provide a description of the reason they are logging on? >> I'm sorry there isn't. I'd like to suggest to use Advanced Audit Policy Configuration to monitor the user logon/logoff. For details: Advanced Security Audit Policy Step-by-Step Guide http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd408940(v=WS.10).aspx Hope this helps! Best Regards Elytis ChengPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Perhaps a logon script could detect that the user is logging onto a server and request information that is appended to a file. One way to detect a server is to look for the string "server" in the operatingSystem attribute of the computer object in AD. Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

Perhaps a logon script could detect that the user is logging onto a server and request information that is appended to a file. One way to detect a server is to look for the string "server" in the operatingSystem attribute of the computer object in AD. Richard Mueller - MVP Directory Services

Thanks for the suggestion. I was hoping I wouldn't have to script it but I guess I have no choice. It would be nice if they simply added it in as an option on the server operating systems.