What do VPN logs reveal?
Recent article here:
http://www.itworld.com/networking/348803/why-vpn-logs-dont-measure-worke...
Kind of common sense, but apparently to some folks, it's not:
VPN logs alone are not enough to prove that people working from home are slacking off, because connecting to the company network is not the same thing as delivering results.
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I would think that since telecommuting users were on Yahoo's remote access VPN, the company would be able to see everything just as if the employee was physically in the office and on Yahoo's network. The encrypted tunnel exists between the network access server and the individual's machine, but once the data stream reaches the NAS, it has fulfilled it's task of secure transmission and should then be unencrypted. If a telecommuting employee wanted to hide their activity from their employer, they should probably not count on their employer's VPN to do it.
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This article might interest you.
How to Read Microsoft VPN Logs
http://techtips.salon.com/read-microsoft-vpn-logs-28499.html
"When you use the Microsoft RAS client to create a virtual private network, or VPN, between a client computer and a server or another computer, you can check the “Enable Logging” option to save log files with connection details and event errors for later analysis. These log files won’t be saved in the usual default location for Microsoft application log files, which is a folder named “Logfiles,” just off the system root directory. With the VPN client, you must use the Event Viewer to read Microsoft VPN logs."