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It's often nice to be able to see what's going on and modify things in regards to users without having to use the GUI, especially because (barring expensive and finicky Windows Server multi-user licensing) Windows remains incapable of what UNIX-based systems have been doing before perhaps anyone who will ever read this wiki article was born, ie. allow more than one GUI user session to be accessed at once (this is a very artificial limitation, yet also a very inflexible one). == Who's logged in and how? == The simplest listing is just via the classic [[ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/query-user | query user ]] command: ``` lang=console, name="`query user` example" $ query user USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME keith 1 Disc 1+05:17 9/7/2022 5:59 PM doug rdp-tcp#0 3 Active 7:54 9/8/2022 11:38 AM ``` For a history, you gotta go to crazy PowerShell one-liners or such, ex. for remote login history ``` Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 6 -LogName 'Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational' | Format-List -Property * ```

It's often nice to be able to see what's going on and modify things in regards to users without having to use the GUI, especially because (barring expensive and finicky Windows Server multi-user licensing) Windows remains incapable of what UNIX-based systems have been doing before perhaps anyone who will ever read this wiki article was born, ie. allow more than one GUI user session to be accessed at once (this is a very artificial limitation, yet also a very inflexible one). == Who's logged in and how? == The simplest listing is just via the classic [[ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/query-user | query user ]] command: ``` lang=console, name="`query user` example" $ query user USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME keith 1 Disc 1+05:17 9/7/2022 5:59 PM doug rdp-tcp#0 3 Active 7:54 9/8/2022 11:38 AM ``` For a history, you gotta go to crazy PowerShell one-liners or such, ex. for remote login history ``` Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 6 -LogName 'Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational' | Format-List -Property * ``` == Change a users' pass == `net user <username> *` will give you a prompt, ex. `net user somedude *`.

It's often nice to be able to see what's going on and modify things in regards to users without having to use the GUI, especially because (barring expensive and finicky Windows Server multi-user licensing) Windows remains incapable of what UNIX-based systems have been doing before perhaps anyone who will ever read this wiki article was born, ie. allow more than one GUI user session to be accessed at once (this is a very artificial limitation, yet also a very inflexible one). == Who's logged in and how? == The simplest listing is just via the classic [[ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/query-user | query user ]] command: ``` lang=console, name="`query user` example" $ query user USERNAME SESSIONNAME ID STATE IDLE TIME LOGON TIME keith 1 Disc 1+05:17 9/7/2022 5:59 PM doug rdp-tcp#0 3 Active 7:54 9/8/2022 11:38 AM ``` For a history, you gotta go to crazy PowerShell one-liners or such, ex. for remote login history ``` Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 6 -LogName 'Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational' | Format-List -Property * ``` == Change a users' pass == `net user <username> *` will give you a prompt, ex. `net user somedude *`.