Notifying users of impending Shut down
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ns9bg1
June 12th, 2009
Hi,
We have started using DCM for power management across our Environment, however we need to be able to notify users that their PC is about to shut down, is there any such facility in Dell Client Manager 3.1 ?
Regards
Brendan
IT Desktop Analyst
Yes
there are two ways..
We can notify the users by keeping the message option in the wise script
Wisescript notification
See if this wisescript I just posted would be of any benefit to you in notifying users.
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/downloads/wise-wrapper-customized-user-prompts
Screenbert
How to get a Notification BEFORE login?
Can you provide a hint, how I can create a notification to users which is visible, BEFORE they log on to the PC?
I'd like to install software when the PC is started up but want to prevent the user to logon, until it has been done, or at least notify the user that software is being installed while they are on the logon screen.
Notification Before Login = Impossible
I do not think it is possible to get a notification before they log on to the PC. You could create a service to install a program, but it still wouldn't have a user notification. You could run once for every user, or in the software delivery task set it to "Run on a schedule: Run at user Logon" and that would run as soon as they logged in.
Screenbert
You would have to customize
You would have to customize the gina so it would be very difficult. One thing I never thought of until now would be using the legaltext feature. If your company isn't already using that, it would be even easier....
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
LegalNoticeCaption
LegalNoticeText
Put your warning mesage here, then at the end of the job kill those keys.
Downside to logon banner
The downside to the logon banner is that it ony appears after they hit ctrl alt del, but still a pretty ingenious idea.
Screenbert
I played around with the option discussed here
www.altirigos.com/vbulletin/deployment-server/6205-splash-screen-configuring-computer.html
It works as designed, replacing the gina dll. It is more suited for a provisioning type scenario, but it does at least provide you with an option.
Jim Harings
Technical Solutions Consultant
Xcend Group
http://xcendgroup.com
Thanks for the link Jim, I
Thanks for the link Jim, I think that this will do.
Brandon: Very good idea indeed which might be useful in certain upgrade scenarios.
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