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  • 1.  Report to tell when the last time a laptop was undocked

    Posted Oct 09, 2013 03:48 PM

    I got kind of a weird request today, is there a way in Altiris to tell when a machine has been undocked, we have a ton of laptop users who leave their laptop at their desk at night and the chairman wants to know if there is a way to tell the last time the machine has been taken home so all I could think was to see when the last time it had been undocked, any suggestions???



  • 2.  RE: Report to tell when the last time a laptop was undocked

    Trusted Advisor
    Posted Oct 09, 2013 05:24 PM

    I don't know about undocking but how about IP address history?



  • 3.  RE: Report to tell when the last time a laptop was undocked

    Posted Oct 10, 2013 03:51 AM

    Hi,

    maybe start in registry here: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\IDConfigDB\CurrentDockInfo\DockingState

    A state of 2 is "docked".

    With the help of a custom inventory you will get information and then you can have a report on this data.

     

    Regards



  • 4.  RE: Report to tell when the last time a laptop was undocked

    Posted Oct 10, 2013 09:43 AM

    If you want to know when a user last opened his laptop at home then you can work with inventory but if you want to know if a laptop was shutted down then brought home and the next day docked then fired up you are fighting a loosing battle, no inventory will be able to tell you that since the laptop is shutted down.

    In the second scenario the only not so perfect solution would be to use out of band technologies to detect that the laptop is still on it's docking station at night.