Client Management Suite

I use SMP 7.5, we've been using it for a little over a year now and we like it. My boss came to me with an interesting question. He said " can we use Altiris to pop up on all the computers incase of an emergency?" So he would like to push out a popup through Altiris that say's a message about an emergancy that is going on. Can SMP do that?? Thanks

Tyson

You could send a VBScript message box as a script task to your users with the information. 

You could also use the ASDK AeXAgentLib..::.DisplayBalloon Method.

VBScript

set sessmgr = agent.SessionManager
set sessions = sessmgr.Sessions
set session = sessions.Item ( 0 )
cookie = session.DisplayBalloon ( "Balloon 1 Title", "Balloon 1 Message", 2, 30, Nothing )
wscript.Sleep ( 5000 )
cookie = session.DisplayBalloon ( "Balloon 2 Title", "Balloon 2 Message", 3, 30, Nothing )

AltirisASDKAgent.exe cmd:DisplayBalloon title:"Balloon Title" message:"Balloon Message" iconType:2 timeout:30

Go to task
Create a new task
Choose run script
Choose vbscript
Type this command
x=msgbox ("Your Title", 4096, "Your text")
 

Go to advance
Choose run as current logged user
Choose hidden (this will hide the dos window not the popup)

Save and quick run it on a test computer.

I have done this for our XP Patching since XP is EOL and the Patch agent used to handle the reboot reminder...

so yes you can. I use Wisescript to create an exe with what I want to popup...

I can do one for you if you wish...

just checked and my Download hasnt been approved yet so cant give you a link yet to show you what I mean.

but looks like this... so you can do whatever you wish as a message

Thanks I'll give it a try.