Re: Monitoring user working hours in microscopy core facility

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We also use PPMS and use individual user accounts (the normal university accounts) for our Leica, Zeiss and Nikon microscopes. We rarely have problems with this and have 300 active users. However there is a bit of setup required for each user, e.g. copy files in the right folder or connect to the server. We do this during the 1:1 training sessions. Sometimes one has to tidy up the C drive of the computer.

PPMS also allows tracking when you use a single local user account.

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Andreas

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> On 28 Sep 2018, at 17:12, Montero Llopis, Paula De La Milagrosa <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Dear Hanna,
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> We use PPMS from Stratocore to manage our core. You can install a real time tracker that prompts users to use their credentials and records their usage.
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> The software gives you a lot of tools to manage your instruments and get statistics, obtain invoices...
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>> On Sep 28, 2018, at 11:52, Hanna Sas Nowosielska <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> Dear All,
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>> In our microscopy core facility, we are trying to find a way to monitor
>> users working ours on our systems. This is particularly important for the
>> users working outside facility staff working hours. After talking to Zeiss
>> and Leica service, it seems that setting user accounts on Windows is hard
>> to do, especially with over 100 users. Thus, I would like to ask you about
>> your experience. How is this monitored in your core facilities? Is there
>> any easy way to do it?
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>> Thanks,
>> Hanna
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>> Hanna Sas-Nowosielska
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>> Laboratory of Imaging Tissue Structure and Function
>> Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
>> Warsaw, Poland