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Alternative to net send for delivering network status updates to domain pc's.

I need a solution for letting the entire domain know when unplanned IT outages occur or when systems come back up. Generally we tend to use email but this route has many flaws. We had to reboot our exchange server this morning due to disk issues and it would have been beneficial to "deliver to desktop" a notification of the work and when the system was back up.

I do not like the idea of net send, opening the client firewalls for it would allow internal transmition between users. Is there software that can

1. sit in the system tray and allow only domain admins to send notifications to it.
2. not allow user to disable or edit any settings.
3. Silently installable via GPO.

Preferable freeware.

Thanks in advance.
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thanks for the recommendation but having looked at that and installed it, it's not quite what were looking for.
Simon,

thought this might be the case however its quiet difficult to come up with ideas as its quite a network specific function your looking for.

My best recommendation would be to have a hunt round teh net as there are literally tens of hundreds of these type of products available to you each with there on nuances and tricks. Finding the right one with teh exact requirements for you is always going to be a bit tricky
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