Just as you post, a solution presents itself :-0 $a = new-object -comobject wscript.shell $b = $a.popup(“This is a test”,0,”Test Message Box”,1)
On 3 October 2013 13:31, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to use PowerShell to display a message to a user and then > log them out? My scenario is this:- > > Got to deliver three distinct desktops from one single image. The access > to the desktops is controlled via AD group, so if you are in the Warehouse > group, you get the Warehouse desktop. Now, for obvious reasons, I'd sooner > have separated this by OU, because a user can only ever be in one OU, but > the client doesn't want to do it this way. So if, for whatever reason, a > user is erroneously added to two of the AD security groups, we want to halt > the logon, display a message, and log the user out. Otherwise they will get > a hotch-potch of settings which will look messy and behave in ways we can't > predict, as two flavours of desktop try to override each other. > > The bit to check whether a user is in more than one of the three groups I > can handle :-) It's the next bit giving me issues. I can't really find any > reliable way to do the message box by Googling, and although I could do it > with VBScript that feels like admitting defeat. Is there a good way to > deliver a message box (just with an "OK" response) in PS? > > To log them out, I am assuming I could just call the Windows logoff.exe > when the message box is gone. Unless there's a way to do logoffs native to > PS? > > Thanks for the continued help with my battle to learn PS properly :-( > > Cheers, > > > > -- > *James Rankin* > Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) > http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk > -- *James Rankin* Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
