So was I and at the time our IT budget wasn't there for loftier tools such as a nice KACE KBOX. At times like this your best friend is ye-old command line utilities, but these tools often only give a current view of what is on the network. The only way to put command line tools on steroids is to write a useful batch file. Who’s On does exactly that, a ready to use batch file which generates automated static HTML and CSV reports making use two very nice free command line utilities. One is taken from the PSTools arsenal, "PSloggedon" created by Sysinternal’s Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell (now acquired by Microsoft), and Microsoft’s Robocopy, created to compete with XXCopy.

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PSTools is available here:
http://www.sysinternals.com or here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx

Robocopy was included natively beginning in Windows Vista and Server 2008. If you are running earlier versions of Windows then you can acquire it by installing Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools which can be procured here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx…. Ω