User Manual - Screen Record
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1. Add Modify Figure 10 HTTP Service The default port of Screen Anytime http service is 3850 you can visit the server with URL like this http lt screen anytime server address gt 3850 And you have to add at least 1 user for login The access range is useful to restrict the range of access defines where he she can visits The synchronizing function allows server to collect records from other workstations servers Records from different computer will store in different folder And the computer name that is also used as folder name which is set in File page of setup will be compared with the Access range parameter here The following picture taking user temp who can only visit computer name with substring PC as sample shows how it works Welcome admin Exit Range All records Computer All localhost aNs CO WINS XR 5275CO5C18FA 10 41G Year il 2015 291h 39m 36s Month A 6 7 Current selection Date Fj 1 2 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 B Sort by time Q user 7 94G 103h 12m 40s Search Search by application window title in current range Substring User a Search A lt may take minutes in first searching Leave blank in user for all lt prev i B3 next gt 11 20 of 28 records chenqi 28D 06M 2015 17 18 42 18 36 07 00 00 01 00 02 00 03 00 04 00 05 00 06 00 07 00 08 00 09 00 10 00 11 00 12 00 13 00 14 00 15 00 16 00 17 00 18 00 192. See below for where jump button is Buttons menu button on top left real size show stretch jump export exit buttons below Absolute time from left to right Jump over idle time Look at the Density of screen changes shows upon the progress bar drag the slider to next position with black dots Add Description You can add some descriptions into a file for future look up Delete Delete a file from disk Export Export segment to a self play exe movie or an avi file Notice the size of AVI file for a same segment could be much larger than a Self play exe file For big image like screen some video codec may not work after our testing Xvid maybe a good choice on many computers TAGS FOR SPECIAL MOMENTS screen Anytime over v1 5 have a feature that supports tags for special moments Any user can mark a moment by added a tag by pressing hotkey Ctrl Alt F12 in recording TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 15 Screen Anytime Add Moment Tag Add a tag to descript current moment and easily searching in future Hotkey Ctrl Alt F12 Icon D General B Meeting conversation ak Bug Unrepeatable message web page a Maintenance of system and software Description fa testing moment Moment Time At v This dialog poped up S e Figure 15 Add moment tag In this pop up dialog you can give this moment a shor
3. 00 20 00 21 00 22 00 23 00 Warning The file maybe too big to play online Click items to play clips chenqi 28D O6M 2015 16 18 28 16 45 57 07 00 08 00 09 00 10 00 11 00 12 00 13 00 14 00 15 00 16 00 17 00 18 00 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 00 23 00 TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 10 Screen Anytime Figure 11 Sample of web version As the picture the user temp can only see records of 3 computers PC1 Sub_PC1 and PC They all have substring PC inside just as what we set in access range A typical usage of access range is administrator can give it a rule when name a computer such as groupname_username for example devgroup_ jack Then apply different access range for different group leader for example leader of development department may have a account dev that have a range of devgroup so he can only visit the records from his group PERFORMANCE REPORT This setting is valid for server edition after v4 5 From where the administrator can set the server to generate performance reports with fixed time span for specified users About performance report see Tips Performance report Http Service Performance Statistics Applications Privacy Make reports for performance The report will show how many how the users spend their time on different applications v Weekly Monthly Quarterly Make instant report User range
4. 20 2015 10 16PM A Jows NT 14 hours Chengi CQ WINS start 2 c Program tiles ser aL 8 43PM 1 days Administrator XR 22 secs C scrlog 2015 07 Administrator 02 19 44 49 svl 5275CO5C18FA oa Figure 19 wall of screens TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 20 Screen Anytime The thumbnails on right are all users of all computers include local and remote on this server If the thumbnail is black it means the session is closed Otherwise you can select to view its latest frame The list of thumbnails will refresh every minute The big image on left is the image of current selected user it will refresh every 5 seconds And you can see the delay on the text Pages are provide to support more users and clients The bad part is the last screen method has longer delay than the first method The delays varied from case to case and depends on the following facts If the uploading progress is fast enough the delay depends on the network speed and the refresh speed of the server which typically under 1 minute If the uploading is not fast enough you have to wait for the uploading catch up with the recording to see the latest screens Therefore the delay will be longer PERFORMANCE REPORT As the new function since v4 5 the performance report can let the administrator know on a specified computer how the time are spend on different application The applications are classified by their exe file name T
5. 26 00h 00 21 00h 02 53 00h 00 05 02h 31 51 00h 00 37 00h 00 13 00h 00 36 00h 00 05 00h 00 01 00h 00 11 Size 2 83M 98 64K 115 54K 205 10K 464 15K 428 29K 364 77K 82 37K 186 23K 76 30K 229 54K 244 34K 273 46K 327 49K 1 14M 150 24K 61 93M 69 28K 67 60K 19 55K 29 32K 19 55K 48 85K Logo STEP STEP STEP STEP End Reason Unexpected stopping User stop recording User stop recording Unexpected stopping Log off or shut down Log off or shut down User stop recording User stop recording User stop recording User stop recording User stop recording User stop recording Unexpected stopping User stop recording User stop recording User stop recording Log off or shut down User stop recording User stop recording Unexpected stopping Unexpected stopping Unexpected stopping Unexpected stopping You can see details about these files There are some items that need to be explained End Reason there are 6 kinds of reasons that a recorder will close a file 1 User session end log off or shutdown the computer 2 Every 3 hours To prevent the large file which is hard to replay the recorder will close the file after 3 hours recording and start a new one From v4 6 the limits of 3 hours been removed After midnight 0 00 recorder will close the current file and start a new one During excepted time See range setup page Abort recording Users close the recorder by normal way or Adm
6. Documents Pe amp temp SCREEN Anytime Figure 14 The player B47 _70698 jpg 171KB JPGFile 47 70700 jpg Be 47_70701 jpa Be 47_70702 jpa 47 _70703 jpg Bei 2006 1 13 11344803 jpq e6765_1156441135 jpq ei 268696_1159552495 jpg ei 1129280286 ipa Be 1155803755 jpg Be 060310131955564 jpg Bea ipg eibk ipa Ba composed jpg ansc 0169 jpg Be psc_0530 3PG Be pSC_0531 IPG Ane nce Md share on stepoknew 193 KB 197 Replay Window 156 KB 48 KB 175 KB 191 KB 67 KB 63 KB 30 KB 804 KB 203 KB 146 KB 459 KB 1 366 KB 1 636 KB ANS VO Recomposit JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File JPG File we Cils 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 11 02 17 10 2006 15 35 24 12 2006 11 22 09 11 2006 20 25 09 10 2006 11 33 17 10 2006 15 31 17 10 2006 10 05 08 10 2006 16 05 09 05 2007 10 26 08 05 2007 10 13 19 10 2006 10 26 02 09 2007 16 40 02 09 2007 16 41 Nn AM OOF Ni TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 14 Screen Anytime In player you can play pause or play frame by frame Click or drag the slider bar to jump to any time Fast playing Dragging and holding the control ball to reach 1 8x speedy replay Release it to reset 1x speed Jumping Click the task list to jump to next title or click the jump button for a list of all
7. Local computer All remote computers C Remote computers with a range localhost lt name gt lt name gt lt name gt You can see a list of all reports when visit server by HTTP or you can View and manage reports Check Weekly Monthly or Quarterly for when the server will make the report The server will start statistics last span at the first day of a new span User range You can set the range of concern From local to Remote or a group with a name keyword Here the name means the PC name set on client s File page TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 11 Screen Anytime 4 MANAGEMENT RECORDS RECORDS IN FOLDER The files of localare saved with the name Output Folder Year Month UserName Date Hour Minute Second slv tmp The files of remote are saved with the name Output Folder Remote Pc name Year Month UserName Date Hour Minute Second slv The under recording file and unclosed file are ended with tmp extension screen Anytime will scan the folder for all files when it starts indexes them and tries to repair old unclosed file VERY IMPORTANT Administrator can simply remove the old records by deleting the files To prevent other users deleting or modifying the records Administrator can remove their read and write right on the output folder and its sub folder need NTFS At the same time make sure Screen Anytime user SCR_ANYTIME_USE
8. files for that About remote files see following paragraph Synchronize By setting the address and port of the server Screen Anytime can transfer the recorded files to the specified Server to accepting the centralized management while the recorder runs The recorded files are the closed files with the extension of svl while the files under recording with the extension of tmp can not be transferred temporarily Server to Server Synchronizing If the transferring client is a server edition that already collects remote files from others Sub network check on synchronize remote files can transfer those records which coming from other computers to next upper level server This feature is useful to build a server tree to collect records and centralizing them to 1 server Because 1 server can only handle limited connect in at same time for a network with such as 1000 computers you may need a server tree to collect records level by level TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 4 Screen Anytime RECORD File and Directory Record Range Frame rate Oe w FPS In most case 1 FPS is enough to record most action Color depth Hi Color 16bit v If you care about file size recommend 16 grayscales or 16 colors mode It will save about 40 more bits compare to hi color mode Record audio from default source of system Figure 3 Record setup page Frame rate Define how many frames per second the recorder
9. same network so they can see each other by their IPs It is not possible to use this way to monitor computers behind firewall or NAT It also highly depended on the network settings so sometime it may not work well Then there is a alternate way provided by Screen Anytime that is Last screen function also called the Wall of screens of the web page version This monitoring function will decode the latest frame from the uploaded files So what you see is the last frame of the last file sort by time and for each client It is obviously more reliable than the first way No matter the client behind or not behind any firewall once the files been uploaded to the server you can see it Another advantage of this method is you don t need a special client to run it On any computer by visit the website of Screen Anytime HTTP service need be on you can see all recent screens Just click on the Wall of screens button on the web page after log in Here is a sample of this method on web page The latest screens of all computers BF C Program Files Screen Anytime Web images File Edit Yew Favorites Jools Help GO Bak D P P Search Folders gt gt X Te 12 10 20096 55PM A ICQ Start Menu 12 14 2009 3 51PM A 2 3 2010 1 03 AM A 12 4 2009 3 01 PM A M 1 hours dian localhost 4 21 2010 2 59 PM 1 hours chengi CHENQI PC 12 14 2009 4 07 PM 2 4 2010 3 49 AM 2 4 2010 3 47 AM A 6
10. should capture Although a higher frame rate can capture more screen changes it brings bigger file and occupies more CPU time Most of the time one frame per second is fast enough to know what happened A testing result for your reference CPU load 2 1 frame per second 800x600 high color login with remote desktop 2 8G Pentium D Color Depth In default Screen Anytime will try to use 16bit high color mode to record You can choose a lower one to save more disk space depending on your need Click Demo button to see the difference of quality Record Audio Check to record audio from default source with 11 025HzZ mono quality The source of sound input can be set in Sound Property in Control Panel of the system In default it is microphone TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 5 RANGE File and Directory Record Range Privacy Users Record sessions of A11 Users Nobody EXCEPT users in ScrAnytime_List group Scranytime_List is a local group which can be edited in the Local users and groups by administrators Time Record activities in Anytime None Jexcept gt and lt 24hrs format e g Figure 4 Range setup page Server Edition Only Users Screen Anytime Screen Anytime can be set to record certain users and specified time range After installation a local user group will be created with the name ScrAnytime_List Any users in this list can be set as r
11. 6bit re Remove Allow user stop recording Show tray icon Allow real time monitoring Application Range by substring of windows title Record all except O Record applications on list Cancel 99 Take effect on next time client computer restart Group All clients Nore clients Except Ri _Datete c The name of client Which is in Setup File Synchronize name Add Figure 9 Remote settings The client which has been configured to synchronize their records to the server will check the remote settings groups on the server on startup The server will find and return the first group of settings priority from top to bottom and then replace the local settings So the remote settings will not take effect immediately Normally it will wait for next day to get work HTTP SERVICE This is a function of server edition Enabling the build in HTTP server allows user visit records from internet with browsers like IE Firefox and so on TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 9 Screen Anytime Http Service Applications Privacy Port 3580 Allow the following users to login Name Access range admin Hane temp PC Password Psw repeat Access range c Input the name of remote PC or local Support lt name gt localhost lt name gt lt name gt
12. Only non guest users on synchronize server can connect in Figure 6 Privacy setup page As an application runs behind the user may not notice that his her behavior has been monitored and recorded To protect the privacy of the user Administrator can set Screen Anytime to give a warning show a tray icon or allow the user to stop and close the recorder Sometimes on the contrary to above Administrators do not wish the users to know there is a recording process behind preventing them from terminating the process by force before they do some thing harmful to the server If so uncheck the option After setup restating system is recommended TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual l Screen Anytime SERVER syne Server Applications Privacy M Act as server to collect and manage records The Screen Anytime Service will work to receive records from network Port 1380 Policy By default all clients will Maximal connection be 25 E Granted O Denied oe I Except those lised below WARNING Too many connected clients may cause the band width and server resource exhoust 1192 168 i92 168 for widecard Remote Settings Client will receive settings from server Figure 7 Server page You may set the Server Edition of Screen Anytime which acts as the central server of video files And then achieve the centralized management of remote video files by configuring the synchronize pag
13. R has full access on this folder The recorder program will write data to this folder with user SCR_ANYTIME_USER RECORDS IN SCREEN ANYTIME Start Screen Anytime and you will see an interface like this Screen Anytime Server Edition 4 6 File amp System Item Tag Yiew Help 2015 06 7715 07 sot i rr a Year amp moih Wed Thr Fri Sat f i N Time Line 1 00 12 00 13 00 14 00 15 00 16 00 17 00 18 00 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 00 ie a Current day _ a a a E E L Timeline or list of records ID803793 local gt Tags of this month No Tag Hotkey Ctrl Alt F12 Total size 0 00GB Total time 1hrs Statistics of this month Total size 0 00GB Total time Ohrs User Statistics of this month Administrator 00h 28 50 dian 00h 09 11 4 E Play e Desc B Del 4 Export Hi Search C scrlog 2015 07 Administrator 02 19 31 52 svl 212423bytes Administrator from 19 31 52 to 19 43 16 11 minutes This user in this day total time 00h 28 50 total size 820 93K Description Sil SCREEN Anyrime Ready ha TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 12 Screen Anytime Figure 12 Interface of Screen Anytime The month with records will be listed on top of the window Select a month then you will see the calendar of it In this calendar date with records will be shown in black the others in gray Select a day and the records will be shown on right view with timeline or list In
14. SCREEN ANYTIME v4 7 ADMINISTRATOR MANUAL Record user session of anyone at anytime SCREEN ANYTIME Stepok Image Lab 2007 2015 www screen record com Document version v4 7 Jul 02 2015 Screen Anytime 1 INTRODUCTION screen Anytime is a set of software which record computer operations into video log files Aiming at such requirements in special industry it provides a continuous stable and long term keeping solution Details of operation in current or past time on server or on workstation will be presented to you with clear view sorted by time line terminals and users Based on our advanced SSCV2 technology that is highly compression effective and stable during recording you can record and keep logs of years Typically 4G per month per workstation Centralized management and real time monitor are also supported in Screen Anytime 2 OVERVIEW After installation Screen Anytime will put the shortcut of recorder to the start group of Windows by write registry value in HKLM Windows Run Once a user session starts no matter login from local or remote the recorder will run until the end During this period the recorder will continually write the data to the file in specified folder which Administrators can run Screen Anytime to manage review and replay If power off suddenly the unclosed log file can be recovered next time opening screen Anytime MAIN FEATURES J To record manage search and play
15. back any visible operations of any user at any time The video logs of computers include all screen changes sounds mouse movements and application title changing Note It does not record keyboard mail and so on contents involved the privacy Managers can look for a log through Screen Anytime main program according to the time the users and so on And playback the content needed easily For the important clips self play EXE or AVI format are supported to export it By searching a substring of the application title a soecial moment can be find quickly 17 00 18 00 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 00 Bo U Figure 1 Timeline TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual l Screen Anytime J Support the multi user log in and log in through different ways screen Anytime support multi user system video logs can be recorded separately when more than one user log in at same time If the users log in through RDP TS Citrix VNC or some other remote controlling system their operations can be recorded as well as log in from local This feature is important for recording server s video log J Support distributed or centralized management of log files The video log in default will be saved and managed at the local but it may also be set as the synchronization to the server to receive centralized management Each server with the Screen Anytime server edition installed can accept synchronized requests from other 64 terminals at same time The server is not l
16. e HTTP Service You can find them on services list Control Panel Administration Tools Services screen Anytime Service will create a TCP port to receive uploading records from clients This port can be set in Server page of setup It also creates a UDP ports for responding to the request of a local real time monitor process This service is installed as auto start with system So it always runs The corresponding exe file is SASyncService exe under the program file folder If anything wrong with this service for example you can use command line to fix problems manually with parameters in following i Install service u Uninstall service The http service will be launched by Screen Anytime Service if the service is TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 22 Screen Anytime enabled in Http service page of setup It will create a TCP port allowing web browser visit records on server remotely It is a all in one HTTP service that does not depended on IIS so you need do nothing in your IIS This service also support I u parameters in command line to install uninstall The workstation edition include only Screen Anytime Service compare to server edition DELAYING The video you can see in Screen Anytime is not in real time There is a delay from the event to the time you can play in Screen Anytime For local recording the minimal delaying time depends in buffer inside the pr
17. e on client the workstation edition The synchronized video files are saved to Output Folder Remote Pc name Year Month If the remote video files are synchronized you can browse the local video or remote video via switch button on the left of the interface ne Localhost gt v Localhost Tags of this month No Tag Hotkey Ctrl Alt F12 PC Total size 0 70GB Figure 8 Switch between local and remotes REMOTE SETTINGS The server edition of Screen Anytime allows you to configuring the settings of remote connected in clients To do it click Remote settings Advance button on server page The remote settings function allows you set different connected in clients by grouping them TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 8 Screen Anytime One group of settings includes options on clients which you can reference the previous introductions plus on an additional option Enable Recording controls recording or not Each group can set to apply on every client or none of them excepting the clients on a list of PC name See File Page x Settings for a Group You can apply different settings to different clients by adding groups The Give a name for this group server will check the rules with priority from top to bottom test1 A Cs Settings default Eu V Enable Recording Set Group Max Space 1 IGB Keep 2 days Remote Settings FPS 3 f E Color Hi Color 1
18. ecord or not record In default Screen Anytime will record all users You can use user account management tool of Windows to set the group Time By check the except option and input the time in 24hrs format you can set screen Anytime to record a specified time range APPLICATION Applications Privacy Syne Server By default Record all activities Nothing Except the title of window contains the following Tels Bee Black screen will be recorded if not in recording Figure 5 Application filter page TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual Screen Anytime Screen Anytime supports to record the specified application You are required to input all or part of window titles of the application to lists where the program will compare with The video will keep black in order to save the image size when recording is not required but maintain continuous timeline The black can be alternatively skipped by the density indication of player when playback PRIVACY PEAR IL ee ee Se an Sync Server Applications Privacy Interface Your session is under recording of Screen Anytime for security purpose The recorded contents include onscreen changes and mouse movements V Show the tray icon on taskbar during recording Can not disable the tray icon in workstation edition Any logged in user must know he she is under recording vV Allow user to stop recording WV Allow realtime monitor from remote
19. en TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 23 Screen Anytime Anytime ltem Stop current recording Can not play movie on web page The web page version of Screen Anytime uses SWF format to show movie clip Because the recorded video files are normally huge it will take time to be converted to SWF format and more time in downloading For big files playing clips is recommended than playing all Can not start Screen Anytime Only Administrator can use this program to configurate and replay CPU cost too much Set FPS in Screen Anytime Setup Record page to a lower number if your processor is not powerful enough Windows Vista UAC warning Since running Screen Anytime need Administrator privilege in Windows Vista it is marked with a UAC shield which will show warning every time launching This is normal Any other questions please visit our forum at http www stepok net ScrecForum 7 LICENSING TRIAL VERSION AND FULL VERSION The trial version for public evaluation has a trail period of 60 days To continue using this product after trial days you need purchase a license key Trial Version WO 55 day s left The trial version of Screen Anytime is the free full featured version which will expire after 60 days of use count begins with the first time you run the program on you computer To get full version you need purchase a license by click the Purchase button Evaluate i Purchase Figure 21 Tria
20. he program will statistic the total time for each exe within a user pointed time span The idle time will be excluded from the statistics If there is no mouse movement in 5 minutes the program will treat the status as idle Administrators can make a instant report in Screen Anytime File menu Performance Statistics for any period they want or make it a automatically repeat rule in Setup Performance Statistics page Server edition only The following figure is a sample of a typical report TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 21 Screen Anytime Performance Report WORKO1 Summary Time for each day grom 5 25 3513 co 6 1 2013 13 5 kocr e te 57 5 booris vine afoot suniszg zina wichect idle All tise incicd Colos cazmple the diffarezt colore are sssigzad to the cop used applicaticas in che report Application statistics applicatiogs jidle cimes noz inclodad I Ili E ESI I INE UER KFE al oi mt ial l i wiht l mE n g t ome gt Figure 20 Performance report There are 2 ways to read those automatically generated reports You can open it at Screen Anytime program the menu File Manage Performance Reports or from the webpage accessed remotely by HTTP services server edition Click on the link on top right of the list page SERVICES Screen Anytime server edition have 2 services installed on the server the Screen Anytime Service and Screen Anytim
21. imited to the same local network J Support real time monitoring The distribute able real time monitoring tool allows the manager to look over the current running status on their own computer for 4 remote terminals The server will check the authorizations before provide the list of terminal addresses to the tool And a more easy last screens function can monitoring all clients by web page and delay within 1 minute J Ability to configure filtration screen Anytime may record the log under specified conditions These conditions include the time section range of users and filtering according to the application titles e g only record the assigned application J The high compressibility and high efficiency Do not worry about the file size of log Based on the second generation of screen video compression technology SSCV2 the compressed file size may be 2 3 times smaller than the similar technology For example to synchronize log files from 50 terminals to 1 server Suppose that those terminals operate for 8 hours a day then the 1TB disk space may easily save for 3 6 month long logs at least Our codec have been optimized fully an ordinary due core server recorded 1024x768 RDP session can only take smaller than 1 CPU resources and a workstation with 1680x1050 desktop which CPU takes not exceed 5 The performance on the other CPU platform is also good which are not readily noticeable when running background J Independent web
22. inistrator stops and TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 13 Screen Anytime closes all files under recording 6 Unexpected reason The possible reason could be unexpected error unexpected power off or force terminated by users You should pay more attention to reason 6 If the user closes the recorder by force he she may not want Administrator to know what he she is doing Screen Anytime has some ways to prevent process being terminated but it is still possible to kill the process of recorder in lower system driver level If this case does happen you can review the movie to make sure and look up other system logs for more information Screen Anytime will help you know who and when REPLAY ADD DESCRIPTION DELETE AND EXPORT Select a file in list or time line then you can do something including Replay Screen AnyTime Player 1 temp Date Modified 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 11 02 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 05 10 2006 16 51 Size Type 175KB IPG File 190 KB JPG File From blue to blue 175KB JPGFile COLL OS ie ere 197 KB IPG File serpin rene 138KB IPG File ie 47_70697 jpa 176KB JPG File Toot U TT F z O Recomposit O help O sample O skin Turbo Photo O Windows NT O WinRAR 5 xerox O scrlog B temp 9 WINDOWS 3 DVD RAM Drive D G Control Panel we O Shared Documents O Administrator s
23. l version If you have purchased a license key we will send you a link of full version You TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 24 Screen Anytime need to download and install it then enter the key you have purchased to activate the product SERVER EDITION AND WORKSTATION EDITION The following table compares the differences between two editions Features Server Edition Workstation Simple Edition Edition System Windows or Windows server Licensing Per server Per PC Per PC must work with server edition Record amp replay Yes Record only Settings All Most Backup amp Yes No No reopen Centralized Yes No No server Http server Yes No No Statistics Yes No No Monitoring Yes No No Price Contact us Purpose Monitor server Local 24x7 Monitor whole Act as server record and replay company include servers and everyone Table 2 Comparison between server edition and workstation edition 8 LINKS Website http www screen record com A stepok sub site of screen recording related products Purchase Server Edition https secure avangate com order cart php PRODS 14359268 amp QT Y Workstation Edition https secure avangate com order cart php 7 PRODS 14359598 amp QT Y server Edition Simple Wk Editions Please contact us TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 25
24. ogram It normally will be under 10 seconds if keeping refreshing For remote uploaded file it could be more longer depended on network bandwidth 1 5 minutes for most of the time 6 TROUBLESHOTS Recorder says Due to user account changes Current user can not access destination folder Check local user accounts and make sure SCR_ANYTIME_USER exist Check registry value HLM Software Stepok ScreenAnytime File UserlDRef in existence If not reinstall Screen Anytime under Administrator account Recorder Says The folder of screen records has not been set Please run Screen Anytime Run Screen Anytime and run File Setup function to set the folder Recorder Says Can not write files and please check the user SCR_ANYTIME_USER to have right of access Make sure the folder exist and check the security property of the folder Make sure user SCR_ANYTIME_USER can read and writes in this folder and its subfolder Can not record contents in media player It is not a bug The capture function of recorder is based on GDI which can not capture some movie scene in media player rendered by overlap way Can not terminate ScreenLog exe process in Task manager The recording process is protected by Screen Anytime You can not terminate it unless Administrator allows users to close it by setting option in Screen Anytime Setup Privacy Administrator can terminate it with function Scre
25. ound window and write down their titles When user do something the always have a foreground window By searching text in titles or program exe file of these windows Screen Anytime can bring you back to the moment they open it TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 18 Screen Anytime Search for special moments Range Time Current Day v User V All Users or only Search for moments when Cmd exe in tittle of foreground windows Ti 3 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Internet Explorer Sample 1 Find who edit registry search for Registry Editor 2 Find the moment talk with sombody in MSN search for somebody Result When Who Tittle 2007 09 22 17h 42 44 Administrator C WINDOWS SYSTEM32 CMD EXE 2007 09 22 17h 44 07 Administrator C WINDOWS SYSTEM32 CMD EXE lt Double click to play Figure 18 search dialog Here are some examples these could be varied in different system To Find Who and When Search Original Window s Title Term Changed registry Registry Registry Editor 1 Conversation with Tom on MSN Tom Tom Conversation Visited google Google Google Microsoft Internet Explore or some other navigators Use text editor notepad The exe name is notepad exe Table 1 Typical samples of search function CLOSE CURRENT RECORDING AND REPLAY In default the recorder of Screen Anytime will recording to the end of session Un
26. service providing browsing and replaying From v4 0 administrators can access the records on server through browser IE firefox etc The web version Screen Anytime provides same functions as local TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 2 Screen Anytime including browsing searching and replay the records The server edition includes a build in http server that can run independently without installation of IIS and SQL J Performance reports show statistics on how time spend The boss always want to know whether their employees are really spend their time on work and for what percent they are focusing From v4 5 with this new function of Screen Anytime administrators can see a pie chart showing exactly how their time are used for local or everyone in remote The reports can be set to generate weekly monthly or manually and easy be viewed as HTML format SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1 Server Edition Windows 2003 2008 32 64 bits Server Workstation Edition Windows XP Vista Windows 7 8 2 Recommend Two or more processor two core CPU 512M or more RAM 3 Recommend At least 10GB or more disk space 3 CONFIGURING At the first time running Screen Anytime you need to setup the software with File and Directory Record Range and Privacy pages FILE AND DIRECTORY File and Directory Record Range bia Output Ensure user SCR_ANYTINE_USER have full access right to this folder Recommend you
27. t description which can be searched and viewed later in Screen Anytime In the moment time section you can adjust the tag time to before after the time dialog pop up or the time dialog closed This tag is listed at the left of Screen Anytime window after a month is selected Double click the item you can go to and replay the moment It can also be searched in searching a moment function besides the general keyword searching of title TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 16 Screen Anytime gt un mon tue wea Inf Fil gt al Tags of this month 30 chengi A testing moment Total size 2 10GB Total time 121hrs Statistics of this month Total size 1 21GB Total time 74hrs User Statistics of this month chenai 74h 30 40 Figure 16 Show moment tag on left 5 TIPS FILE PROTECTING To protect the records from deleting modification and reading by non administrator users you can 1 Use NTFS file system instead of FAT FAT32 2 Never give common users the privilege of Administrator 3 Based on 1 and 2 set the output folder s security property Disable access right of everyone except Administrator SCR _ANYTIME USER and other necessary accounts The very important thing is to make sure SCR_ANYTIME_ USER can read write and create folder in the output folder and its subfolders With above settings common users can not read write files in this folder so they can not delete modify or cop
28. til then the file will not been closed and keep getting larger If you need to stop recording or close the file you can call menu Item End current recording to close them manually In this function you can set the recorder to stop or resume after the file is closed The End reason of a manually closed file is User stop recording MONITORING AND REAL TIME MONITORING Screen Anytime server edition provides two ways to monitor all computers from which the recorded files are uploaded to the server In real time or with limited delay The first way also a real time way is by function Realtime monitor under menu TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 19 Screen Anytime File amp system You can use it on server or copy the tool to your local to use There is a distribute able tool ProjSvr exe under the setup folder of server edition This is a tool for real time monitoring To monitor a workstation you need check the box allow monitoring on the setup privacy page of the workstation client Figure 6 Then the manager can run ProjSvr exe on his own computer log in server to get a list of workstation then click for connection After connection established screen on client workstation will be transferred to the manager s computer The manager can monitor 4 workstations at same time with delaying under 1 seconds While this function requires the monitored computer and the manager s computer under
29. time line each file will be presented as a segment which starts from the corresponded x position on timeline The files of different users are expanded on y axis A normal session file will be shown as a solid rectangle filled with color and surrounded with a frame m When the file is not properly closed it will be a dot line frame instead 4 And for files under recording the color is lighter than normal L Moving the cursor over the item will show the details in the pop up tips In list view as follows List Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator Administrator gq Start 13h 18 00 13h 29 21 13h 29 30 13h 40 13 13h 40 40 13h 42 07 13h 49 39 13h 50 05 13h 50 38 13h 50 50 14h 01 05 14h 06 10 14h 07 25 14h 07 55 14 08 40 14h 12 45 17 27 29 14 19 25 14h 20 03 17h 27 40 17h 28 20 17h 28 27 17h 28 34 Figure 13 List view End 13h 28 15 13 29 29 13h 29 36 13h 40 38 13h 41 48 13h 42 46 13h 50 04 13h 50 08 13h 50 48 13h 50 52 14h 01 23 14h 06 27 14h 07 51 14h 08 16 14h 11 33 14h 12 50 19 59 20 14h 20 02 14 20 16 17h 28 16 17h 28 25 17h 28 28 17h 28 45 Duration 00h 10 15 00n 00 08 00h 00 06 00h 00 25 00h 01 08 00h 00 39 00h 00 25 00h 00 03 00h 00 10 00h 00 02 00h 00 18 00h 00 17 00h 00
30. use NTFS and disable access right of other users Local Size limits Total size not exceed GB V Only keep records for 9 days Delete old records without warning Apply rules on remote files synchronize V The recorder will try copy the files to server for centralization of management Server Address 11380 with name The folder on server V Delete local files after synchronized Synchronize remote files transit branch TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 3 Screen Anytime Figure 2 File and directory setup page Output folder In this folder the file name follows this rule Output Folder Year Month UserName Date Hour Minute Second slv tmp This folder structure makes it easy to backup records month by month The under recording file is end with a tmp extension which will be closed and rename to a normal slv extension when recorder closes it The recorder will access the folder and write the files by user SCR_ANYTIME USER So if the file system is NTFS please make sure that the folder and its subfolder can be read and wrote by it Size Limits To avoid your disk out of space you can limit the maximal disk use and how long the records will be kept When it exceeds program will delete the old files So remember to backup data if need For server edition you may also want to apply those rules on remote files transferred from workstation to this server Check apply rules on remote
31. y them SAVE DISK SPACE The following settings can help saving disk space 1 Set maximal limits of total size and time Refer to Configuring File setup page 2 Use lower frame rate and color depth Refer to Configuring Record setup page 3 Set your screen saver to a simple one or just disable it Avoid using complex TA Screen Anytime Administrator Manual 17 Screen Anytime screen saver like Aquarium 4 Disable wallpaper and use classic Windows theme The statistics of total disk usage can be found at the left side of the main interface Total size 6 56GB Total time 299hrs Statistics of thi Total size 4 29 Total time 181hrs User Statistics of this month Administrator 179h 40 17 gq 02h 08 56 SCR_ANYTIME_USER 00h 06 48 Figure 17 Statistics BACKUP AND REOPEN Server Edition Only It is easy to back up the records that just burn the files you need into disc Warning the files on disc have no protection and therefore anyone can replay them on any computer installed Screen Anytime In Screen Anytime you can reopen the backup records Just use menu item File From another place and select a folder For example the path of DVD ROM Screen Anytime will browse and search in this folder and update view based on the result SEARCH A MOMENT The search function is very useful in filtering out special user actions from the big files The recorder will catch every change in foregr
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