As much as I am happy that MS closed the security hole, I do wish there was still a built-in way to inform all users (or speciffic users/groups) in Active Directory with a notification.
Scenario: For whatever reason, %service% is down. I'm getting hammered by phone calls. I would love to be able to send out a "%timestamp%: We are working on %service%. Thank you for your [lack of ]patience." either everybody, students or staff depending on the %service%. The closest I get to that now is sending a broadcast with our Shoretel system, which is not optimal. With OpenFire, it seems like this is possible. It might even be free for all the needed software. The only bit I was having trouble with was a jabber client that would live in the system tray, would sign in using single-sign-on credentials of the logged in user, and didn't throw up an error if the client wasn't able to connect for whatever reason (i.e.: The user is a student, and doesn't have permission to connect to OpenFire). I last tried this a few years ago, so I don't know if this is possible now. I have never even looked at Lync. Being Microsoft, I would imagine it integrates with windows quite well. As we have a large Mac userbase, I have not spent any energy looking to see if it could give use those features. *sigh* Pipe Dreams. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:29:52 -0800 Subject: Re: Corporate IM > Till those killjoys at MS disabled the Messenger service in Windows 2000 or > so :-) > > I do remember seeing malware leveraging the service online as well > > On 2 February 2012 17:03, Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Laugh.. we used to do that back in the NT days, and quite a bit. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 2:30 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Corporate IM > > > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Recommendations for an secure/enterprise IM product? > > > > NET SEND username "message" > > > > (Just kidding.) > > > > -- Ben > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' 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