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Yes i was thinking the same, some guy who works in business end of work said he saw it years ago ,i was pretty sure he was mistake<br />
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Any ideas on the best way to do a Xmas banner , is the interactive logon the best way of doing it?<br />
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They said they don't want screensavers wallpaper
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Can you not push out a default home page using GP, and then just have someone (or yourself) write a simple HTML page on one of your webservers that says such? (Note: I am a developer, not an admin, so I'm not sure what all GP can handle.)
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Yes, agreed, that is a preferable and easy way. GPOs can push browser home pages - however, that would be only advisable if you are ok with the risk of overwriting homepages of the users.
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Thanks yeah don't think i'd use that as we'd have to design a page for it, any other options, much appreciated
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&quot;designing&quot; is pretty easy. Open word, insert graphics and text and save it as html
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You're right McKnife its just I'm not a designer and this is professional organisation, as i said earlier thanks for updates, but i'd rather not go down that route
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Ok... you want a banner or something similar. You want it to display to everyone somewhere at some point in time.<br />
That banner would have been something simple, just text without graphics?<br />
Then why not take a popup? Deploy a scheduled task that runs at a certain time and simply displays a popup window &quot;Merry XMas everyone!&quot;<br />
Code: 
<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-42409060-1"><span>msg %username% &quot;***********Merry XMas everyone!***********&quot;</span>
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No I will use a banner which i find online &nbsp;a Xmas page etc, I just dont want to use it as their home page thats all, sorry for the misunderstanding<br />
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Is interactive logon (which i highlighted previously) the best way to do this?
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Ah, no. That message would look like this: <br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/12_w51/1215885/interact.png" target="_blank" title="Screen (19 KB)"><img alt="Screen" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 468px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2017/12_w51/1215885/interact.png" /></a>[not my text ;-)]
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One of the bosses here wants this as part of Internet Explorer<br />
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I have seen it used as a logon interactive banner with GPO<br />
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<a href="http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5073" rel="ugc">http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5073</a>&nbsp;<br />
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Can someone outline the choices of where banner can be displayed etc<br />
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Domain functional level is 2008 and clients are mainly Windows 7 Professional, some Windows 10 Professional
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One of the bosses here wants this as part of Internet Explorer

I have seen it used as a logon interactive banner with GPO

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5073 

Can someone outline the choices of where banner can be displayed etc

Domain functional level is 2008 and clients are mainly Windows 7 Professional, some Windows 10 Professional

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