Bulk setup of Time Champ using Active Directory

Created by Lakshmi Bhavani, Modified on Fri, 24 Feb 2023 at 08:12 PM by Lakshmi Bhavani


Step1: Download the Time Champ and save this in the domain server
Download the Time Champ batch file


Login into your Time Champ account



example site address is test.timechamp.io


To login into the site click on sign in after giving the credentials.


1. After login The below page will apper. Click on agent button at top right corner. 




2. The below screen will apper after clicking on Agent Button. Click on Windows



Select To install for Employees



Select Active Directory.



Choose the agent Type Interactive or silent.



Click on InteractiveIf your Choice is Interactive.



Click on Manual if you want login Manually in tracker.



This below page will apper . Check the checkBoax and Click On download button.



If you want craete the user automatically based on Desktop Login. Click on Automatic.



This below page will apper . Check the checkBox and Click On Download button.



If you want to install the silent agent. Cllick on Silent.



The user will auto created . If the user is already avaliable the desktop is auto assigned to user. When user login to the server.




This type of file will download.



3. Go to File explorer > C Drive > Windows> SYSVOL > sysvol> your domain server system > Scripts>


4. Paste the Time Champ Bat file in the above mentioned system path


Step2: Update the logon script for users in the active directory 


Refer to this article - https://petri.com/setting-up-logon-script-through-active-directory-users-computers-windows-server-2008


  1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers from the Administrative Tools folder 
  2. Expand the domain tree, locate the users
  3. Right-click the user object, select Properties.
  4. The corresponding user properties will be displayed like below and click on the profile tab as shown below



5.  Input the logon script as "timechamp.bat" 


6. Click Ok


Step3: Logout and login to the remote system


Sign out completely from the system and log in back


Time Champ will get downloaded to your system


If you download the interactive agent with automatic user creation file, the following pop up is displayed like this



If you download the interactive agent with manual login, the following pop up will be displayed like this



If you download the silent agent with automatic user creation , it will be completely running in the background and user will be auto created


If you download the silent agent with manual login, you need to assign the desktop manually 


Desktop Assign : For manual user creation in silent agent we need to assign the desktop for the user on-site.


For that go to the Desktop tab



In that Desktop tab, Time Champ installed computer name is displayed in unassigned desktops tab in Desktops tab in that click on Actions



Click on the assign desktop in actions pop up



 


After clicking on the assign desktop button, the below screen will appear. Select the respective user name from the drop-down 



After selecting the user click on Assign and the desktop will be added to the assigned desktops list and Time Champ started running in the background.


 



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