Quite a bit, actually. Although most of that is addressed in Win8. Regards,
Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 5:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate IM Is there anything powershell can't do? -- Sent from the bath Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -----Original Message----- From: "Sam Cayze" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:40:19 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: Corporate IM Powershell/Send-NetMessage http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Send-NetMessage-Net-Send-0 459d235 -----Original Message----- From: Rankin, James R [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate IM If you have RDS or Citrix, you can message users in a similar way, either from command line or GUI. Handy for outages, as you say. ------Original Message------ From: Ben Scott To: NT System Admin Issues ReplyTo: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Corporate IM Sent: 2 Feb 2012 19:50 On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Yah, the NET SEND functionality is/was really useful for things like service warnings. I had it rigged up so that if the server UPS goes to batteries, it sends one warning, and another as it approaches shutdown. I can understand having it disabled by default, but IIRC it's been removed entirely in Vista or 7. -- 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 Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird ~ 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 ~ 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
