Scenario: You notice a stream of requests ending up in a production server error log that clearly hint you of a misconfigured software client on a laptop (running Windows) in the company network. Checking the IP address against DNS gets you the computer name, but checking that against the company CMDB you only get a name of an former employee. The errors in the log are ugly and you want to get rid of them, but as you don't have admin access for laptops, you can't use the regular Windows admin tools to figure out who's using the darn thing. Asking for a workstation admin to get you the information might be one way, but there's also another way...
Solution: Grab
psloggedon from
pstools package (and nevermind if your copy is six years old, as mine was). Issue
pslooggedon \\hostname.yourdomain.com
on the command line and there you'll see all the accounts that are currently logged on, and can contact the user in question.
I acknowledge there might be plenty of other ways, too (myself I tried also using
msg to message the user but that seemed to be blocked somehow, or maybe it was a conflict with Win7 vs. WinXP), and you're welcome to share similar stories in the comments.
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