Remote employee time tracking software

Remote employee time tracking with ADAudit Plus

What is remote employee time tracking software?

Tracking employee hours in a distributed environment using manual timesheets or standalone clock-in apps creates a gap between what employees report and what actually happened on your network. The logon event record in AD is more reliable than a self-reported timestamp: it captures when a session started, when it ended, and from which machine, with no employee action required.

ADAudit Plus turns that logon data into structured time tracking reports. Every remote employee's first logon, last logoff, and active session duration is available in pre-configured reports that can be scheduled, exported, and delivered to managers or auditors automatically.

Key employee time tracking metrics monitored by ADAudit Plus

Track remote employee logon times and actual work hours

ADAudit Plus captures logon and logoff events across every domain-joined machine. Review each employee's active hours for any date range without querying individual domain controllers (DCs) or writing a PowerShell script.

• Each user's first logon and last logoff for any day, week, or custom period is available across all workstations they used.
• Session duration is recorded per logon event, with separate start time, end time, and duration columns for each session.
• ADAudit Plus factors in screensaver invoke and dismiss events, along with console lock and unlock activities, to calculate actual active time beyond simple system startup and shutdown events; distinguishing genuine work hours from idle session time.

 

 

Gain quick visual insights into how users spend their workday and easily identify employees with the lowest productivity.

Monitor remote desktop and RADIUS/NPS authentication

ADAudit Plus captures logon and logoff events across every domain-joined machine. Review each employee's active hours for any date range without querying individual domain controllers (DCs) or writing a PowerShell script.

• Each user's first logon and last logoff for any day, week, or custom period is available across all workstations they used.
• Session duration is recorded per logon event, with separate start time, end time, and duration columns for each session.
• ADAudit Plus factors in screensaver invoke and dismiss events, along with console lock and unlock activities, to calculate actual active time beyond simple system startup and shutdown events; distinguishing genuine work hours from idle session time.

 

 

Identify who logged in remotely, when they logged in, which computer they accessed, and where they connected from.

Extend tracking to cloud environments

ADAudit Plus audits both on-premises AD and Microsoft Entra ID from a single console. Employee sign-ins through Entra ID appear in the same reporting view as traditional domain logons.

• Every Entra ID sign-in event is captured with user identity, source IP, geo-location, device information, and MFA result.
• The Hybrid Logon Activity report correlates on-premises AD and Entra ID events
• Legacy authentication sign-ins using older protocols that bypass MFA appear in their own report.

 

 

Get an overview of logon activity across your AD and Entra ID environments.

Get real-time alerts on remote logon events

ADAudit Plus ships with pre-configured alert profiles covering the logon events most likely to require immediate attention from your team.

• When a disabled account attempts to log in, your team is notified immediately, so you can determine whether a former employee's credentials are being used before any damage is done.
• When an account lockout event fires, the alert reaches the responsible administrator without waiting for a help desk ticket, which reduces the time between lockout and resolution, particularly for remote employees locked out outside business hours.
• When a logon occurs at an unusual time for a specific user, the alert gives you the context to decide whether this is a legitimate after-hours session or a compromised credential, rather than making that call after the fact from a log.

You control which events cross the threshold for an alert, so high-volume environments only escalate events that genuinely require a response rather than generating noise. When an alert fires, ADAudit Plus can automatically create a ticket in ServiceNow, Jira, or your preferred ITSM tool so the right team member receives the event without waiting for manual triage.

Meet compliance requirements

Logon records are audit evidence. ADAudit Plus includes pre-configured compliance report sets for SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FISMA, GLBA, GDPR, and ISO 27001. Each set maps logon activity, session duration, and access events to the specific controls the standard requires, with no custom scripting needed.

Custom report profiles let you combine specific users, audit actions, date ranges, and machines into a saved profile that generates the exact slice of logon data an audit requires, without reconfiguring the report each time. All reports export to CSV, PDF, HTML, and XLSX and can be scheduled for automatic delivery to auditors or compliance officers.

Why native tools fall short

Windows Security Event logs contain the raw logon data you need for remote employee time tracking. The problem is that these logs are stored locally on each machine, with no built-in mechanism to aggregate them across your environment.

• Security event logs are stored locally on each DC and workstation, with no native consolidated view across machines or sites.
• Event Viewer has no session duration calculation; logon and logoff events are separate records that must be manually matched and subtracted, and logoff events are not always recorded consistently.
• PowerShell can aggregate logs across DCs, but building and maintaining scripts to produce formatted, schedulable attendance reports is a significant ongoing overhead, not a monitoring capability.
• Neither Event Viewer nor built-in cmdlets produce a unified view covering both on-premises AD logon events and Microsoft Entra ID sign-ins in the same output.

ADAudit Plus replaces that manual, fragmented workflow. Logon data is collected and correlated across all monitored systems automatically, reports are pre-configured and schedulable, and both on-premises and Entra ID sign-in events appear in a single reporting view. The work hour record that takes a team hours to extract manually is available in minutes.