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Windows Login Message of the Day
How can I implement a "Message of the Day" service on Windows XP/2003 Server, presented after successful login? If the message were sensitive to Groups that would be fine.
From my research to date it seems that I would need some additional software, which surprises me.
From my research to date it seems that I would need some additional software, which surprises me.
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Thanks for the tip. If I have read it right, this is for a pre-login message, which would be visible by anyone.
What I am looking for is a message that is displayed to authenticated users after login. Sorry if that was not clear in my original post.
What I am looking for is a message that is displayed to authenticated users after login. Sorry if that was not clear in my original post.
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Yep - either with the script or a simple
NET SEND %computername% "Casual Fridays have now been canceled thanks to Judy"
:)
NET SEND %computername% "Casual Fridays have now been canceled thanks to Judy"
:)
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JBlond has answered my question as stated... thanks very much.
It's not quite what I had in mind, but I guess that's my fault. I was hoping that the message text could be contained in a secure file, and that the contributors would not have to edit the login script. If anyone has any ideas then I would appreciate them but you may lack motivation since it is only fair that I award JBlond the points.
It's not quite what I had in mind, but I guess that's my fault. I was hoping that the message text could be contained in a secure file, and that the contributors would not have to edit the login script. If anyone has any ideas then I would appreciate them but you may lack motivation since it is only fair that I award JBlond the points.
What do you mean by secure file?
If you're looking to have all users/some users change this.
Then give them access to notification.txt
Then you have your script open that file and post the information there in a msgbox....
If you're looking to have all users/some users change this.
Then give them access to notification.txt
Then you have your script open that file and post the information there in a msgbox....
It's also possible to execute a second script from within the login script with the 'call'-command...
Then noone has to edit the login-script itself and you could use different access permissions on the other script. In this case you could use the second script for example to open only the message box...
Then noone has to edit the login-script itself and you could use different access permissions on the other script. In this case you could use the second script for example to open only the message box...
:) Two posts, same idea...
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That notification.txt idea sounds ideal. How do I get the text in the file into the msgbox command? Can you tell I'm not a scripting expert :-)
See here: http://windows.about.com/od/tipsarchive/l/bltip333.htm