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    Prompt during logon

    I have a strange request.

    Our quality department are wanting to send 'netsend' like messages to individual/range machines with 'todays' quality issues.

    Is there any software which can send messages to PC's which has to have the user acknowledge before contiuing?

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    at a very wild guess you coudl use some form of msgbox that picks up its detail from an xml file ( updateable from some front end app used by quality )
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    You can pop up messages which you then click "Ok" on to get to the Windows login box. I think it's something which is displayed on the first boot only though. The place I used to work at used it to show legal info and terms of use etc.

    I don't know where this lurks in Active Directory setup though.

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    its in group policy - but updating it woudl be a bit of a pain.
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    yeah logon, wouldnt be a good idea as the machines are pretty much left logged in all the time.


    hmmm. some kind of messaging utility... hmm.

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    If the machines are already logged on, why not just do a 'net send'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by joeka
    If the machines are already logged on, why not just do a 'net send'?

    how many people allow netsend?

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    if you want it to pop up while machines are logged in then you'll have to have some form of system tray application that will poll a webserver and look for changed XML ( think of an ICQ type system message thing )
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    really easy to make in .net, not even an hours programming for a novice!
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vini
    how many people allow netsend?
    Can you not get your sys admins to enable it? Wouldn't it solve all your problems?

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    not really - the messeneger service is disabled by default ( and for a good reason )
    you have no record of delivery , or acknowldgements that the person has read the message
    there isn't much of a history kept and if your machine is switched of when the send is used then you wont get the message.

    how exactly is that solving all the problems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moby-Dick
    how exactly is that solving all the problems.
    Err.. Ok, I guess when you put it like that - you're right - it doesn't!

    Well I suppose the only option would be to make your own program then, I can't think of an off-the-shelve application that would do the job..?

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    I dont think it would be too tricky a job to do ( I've not seen much in the way of off the shelf stuff - our in house helpdesk app just has a banner at the top thats updatable by admins )

    BT staff have a great one with a pretty looking "pager" front end , to let you know of network outtages.

    the slight problem is that when the network dies...the messages dont get through
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    Use "Microsoft Message Queuing"

    no programming needed...

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    its not just in win2003/XP either. Win2k definitely has it - i've used it several times for server to server communications for performance management etc.

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