Event Log User Login

Jul 19, 2017 · On Professional editions of Windows, you can enable logon auditing to have Windows track which user accounts log in and when. The Audit logon events setting tracks both local logins and network logins. Each logon event specifies the user account that logged on and the time the login took place. You can also see when users logged off.

Open Filter Security Event Log and to track user logon session, set filter Security Event Log for the following Event ID’s: • Logon – 4624 (An account was successfully logged on) • Logoff – 4647 (User initiated logoff) • Startup – 6005 (The Event log service was started)

A user successfully logged on to a computer. For information about the type of logon, see the Logon Types table below. 529: Logon failure. A logon attempt was made with an unknown user name or a known user name with a bad password. 530: Logon failure. A logon attempt was made user account tried to log on outside of the allowed time. 531: Logon ...

May 16, 2019 · How to Read Logoff and Sign Out Logs in Event Viewer in Windows When a user logs off (sign out) of Windows, all of the apps you were using are closed, but the PC isn't turned off. Another person can log in (sign in) without needing to restart the PC. You can use Event Viewer to view the date, time, and user details of all logoff events caused by a user initiated logoff (sign out).

Aug 20, 2008 · I get the question fairly often, how to use the logon events in the audit log to track how long a user was using their computer and when they logged off. As I have written about previously, this method of user activity tracking is unreliable. It works in trivial cases (e.g. single machine where the...

Any events logged subsequently during this logon session will report the same Logon ID through to the logoff event 4647 or 4634. Linked Login ID: (Win2016/10) This is relevant to User Account Control and interactive logons. When an admin logs on interactively to a system with UAC enabled, Windows actually creates 2 logon sessions - one with and ...

Nov 17, 2016 · In Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP, you could easily filter the events in the system Event Log Viewer by a specific user account if you enter the desired username in the User field of the log filter. But in Windows Server 2008 / Windows 7, this simple way of finding events related to the specific user does not work.

Event ID 4647 - User initiated logoff. This event, like event 4634, signals that a user has logged off; however, this particular event indicates that the logon was interactive or RemoteInteractive (remote desktop). Event ID 4625 - An account failed to log on.