We us the Benbria Blazecast system for our notifications. In fact we just had to use it last week when we were on a real lockdown.
http://www.benbria.com/products/blazecast/ Rene From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: October-20-15 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] campus lockdown question Just a random thought here, but depending on the relative response time requirement (5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 minute?) it might be feasible to have a scheduled task on all the machines that goes out and checks for a flag file, then executes when it is found. You could make the task to pretty much anything you want and it would be able to continue to check so undoing the process would mean just delete the flag file. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 12:24 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] campus lockdown question Got to look at exclusions too. For example the workstations that need to access the security cameras. We have a wall of displays in an office so someone can hunker down and feed info to the responders and anyone still on campus. I get what they are asking for and why….every available media to announce an issue…but there are so many pitfalls on this one. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barbara Mockett Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 12:08 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] campus lockdown question This seems like a case where you would want to be really careful about expectations. Plan and announce tests. You (and management) need to know how much time passes between when you hit “Send” and when the first, last and average PC/virtual machine/laptop, wired and wireless, receive the message. Management may be looking for something that’s not practical or possible to effectively deliver. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 8:29 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] campus lockdown question Perhaps a Net Send to pop a message…then wait 5 seconds…and then lock it. You could copy a custom lock screen photo to the computers ahead of time and set it with regedit as part of your procedure. Then undo it after the emergency. But that is a lot of moving parts and relies on computers being on to undo.. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of roycroet Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:21 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] campus lockdown question Yes I can, is there any way to display a custom message in that lock screen? Le mardi 20 octobre 2015 10h43, Erik Goldoff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit : do you have the ability on all the windows systems to remotely execute something like : %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation same as CTRL-ALT-DEL , Lock Workstation from the keyboard On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:28 AM, roycroet <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Good morning, I've been asked by our school to lock and display a message on all computers in case of a campus lockdown. SMS and alert on our website are not enough for upper management, they want to completely lock the systems. Any idea would be greatly appreciated! This email (and any attachments) contains information which is private and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are not authorized to read, copy or use this email, or any of its attachments. If you have received this email in error, please destroy it and notify the sender immediately by return email.
