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    We have a guy who left the company and decided to access a whole heap of MSDN licenses before he left. We checked with Microsoft if there's anything we can do and they say no. I have a list of what he took on his last day for reference only.

    My question is, is there any way we can find out what software he could also have downloaded from MSDN? My boss has asked to me to see if it's possible to find out. So far I've been unable to do that, so if it's possible then how?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazzak View Post
    We have a guy who left the company and decided to access a whole heap of MSDN licenses before he left. We checked with Microsoft if there's anything we can do and they say no. I have a list of what he took on his last day for reference only.

    My question is, is there any way we can find out what software he could also have downloaded from MSDN? My boss has asked to me to see if it's possible to find out. So far I've been unable to do that, so if it's possible then how?
    Downloaded from work or home?

    Work should be easy if he used a web browser to access the ftp it should be in the history, if that was erased, the Index.dat file might have the pages he visited saved. I am not so sure about ftp clients since I don't use them.

    If he did it from home, MS may have log of ip addresses that logged into the account but I doubt they will know what was done once someone logged in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Larommi View Post
    Work should be easy if he used a web browser to access the ftp
    It's not ftp. it's https. If MS doesn't want to provide a log then no chance unless the company is filtering and logging https.
    To make things worse there is a faster download option using the Akamai downloader.

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    ahhh, okay. It has been 14 years for me so I don't recall all the details.

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