Not sure where this belongs, as there is no section for Domains, Terminal servers or Active Directory. Networking is the closest that I could find. We have a newly formed domain. So far we have 4 workstations that we have migrated onto it through active directory. We have been adjusting settings and we can now manage these PC's through Group Policies but is there anyway of viewing files stored on the local HDD? We need to be able to monitor what users are storing locally as we have lots of "naughty" users, who are using their workstations as their own personal equipment. By this I mean they are storing mp3s, mpegs and unauthorised software. If this can not be done is there any way of logging on remotely as the administrator while the user is still active on the domain account? Or even another way. Has anyone encountered this problem before?
If you're concerned about the fact that users use too much storage, you could implement Disk Quotas. If you need to view the files of each user, you could use a roaming profile setting to store all users files on the server. And then give Administrators access to that location.
Its not the best way but are you not able to "remote desktop" into the target computer? Surely there must be settings which don't allow users to download/run applications?
