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    How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    I am wondering how you inform your users of know issues or down time?
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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Pen and paper.

    Most people gather somethings up with they get a "Domain cannot be found" message

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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Intranet , Email , Welcome Message when calling the helpdesk , posters by the coffeee machine.

    plan your downtime with stakeholders in the business and get them to agree. When there inevitable person who has ignored the messages , deleted the mails etc complains , refer them to said stakeholder.
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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Blanket email to all of them?

    Mark it as high priority and give plenty of notice.

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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    I always thought it would be a good system to have a ticker or pop up informing people of known service faults but i can't find a system like that anywhere.
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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Quote Originally Posted by Jay View Post
    I always thought it would be a good system to have a ticker or pop up informing people of known service faults but i can't find a system like that anywhere.
    somethign I wanted to implement back when I used to work on a helpdesk ( major incedent ticker )

    that said it shouldn't be too hard to Knock up with an RSS feed to an app that opens a little IE window on login?

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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Can you do it with Windows messenger - a pop up box?

    Nothing like a terminal message "System is going down for a reboot NOW" though!

    Edit: What about net send ?
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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Messaging service has long since been disabled on most machines - we're not in Windows NT any more Toto
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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

    Quote Originally Posted by peterb View Post
    Can you do it with Windows messenger - a pop up box?

    Nothing like a terminal message "System is going down for a reboot NOW" though!

    Edit: What about net send ?
    That used to be how i did it, with a VB front end. Netsend has long been disabled for security reasons.
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    Re: How do you inform Domain users of down time?

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    Messaging service has long since been disabled on most machines - we're not in Windows NT any more Toto
    Thought it was too easy! Ah wel;l, that's progress for you. You'll be telling me netbios is redundant next
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