Manage Computers Issue

[jwi...@sempertech.com]

Manage Computers lists all of the computers on our network including
systems that have been removed until you delete them from SBS. The
question is what the highlighting ('enabled') means. I've assumed that
it meant that someone was logged into the network on the highlighted
machines. The issue is that some of the systems that have been removed
are still highlighted while some systems where active users are logged
into the network are grayed out. Does anybody really know what
determines whether a system is 'enabled' or grayed out?

PS. I peaked into Server Manager and noticed the same anomalies exist
there.

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[Dave Nickason]

Manage computers should show all computers you have ever added to your
network, unless you have explicitly removed them. The ones that are
highlighted are connected, and the ones that are greyed out are not. I
can't imagine what would make a machine show as highlighted if it has been
physically removed from the network, although I would guess it will show
highlighted if it is turned on but not logged in.

Manage connected users is a different thing, because that only shows users
who are accessing server resources at that specific time. Say you log in
and open a file - you'll show as a connected user. If you go to lunch, at
some point you will stop showing as a connected user, because NT Server will
drop your connection to the file. When you come back and go to use the
file, your workstation will pass an authentication token to NT to allow you
to access the file again, transparently to you. Then, you'll show connected
again.

I can often see this when my assistant and I are both in the accounting
program. She's using it, so she shows as a connected user. I'm just
running the program idly on my workstation, so I don't.

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