FWIW, I don't think a "NETSEND" type solution is ideal in your scenario. >From my experience, cashiers spend very little time looking at their POS display. With the myriad of keystrokes a cashier performs, a NETSEND type popup message would probably be acknowledge by a keystroke before the user ever saw it.
What's complicated about an IM window? IMs can be set to display over top of other windows, and it would act similar to any other popup message. If a network/server outage occurs, is the application broken? Could you just force a reboot of the machine remotely? - Sean On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Stephen Wimberly <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice idea, and if these were actual "users" that would work... although in > this case we are sending messages to sales cashiers to a Point of Sale > station. Yes, they are 'real people', but the level of expertise is not > there to handle something as sophisticated as an instant messenger window. > > What I really need is to drop the existing custom application to the > background via a transparency and place a rather opaque message across the > screen for all to see, but allowing the cashier to continue to function. > This way the cashier and the manager would easily see that something needs > to be done. That would be best, but I'm not holding my breath. > > We really just need to get them to restart the POS application after a > network outage or server outage. > > > > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Christopher Bodnar < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Have you looked into adding instant messaging to your environment? MOCS >> is great, but you could go Open Source and setup a Jabber server and use a >> free client like Pidgen. >> >> >> >> Chris Bodnar, MCSE >> Sr. Systems Engineer >> Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services >> Guardian Life Insurance Company of America >> Email: [email protected] >> Phone: 610-807-6459 >> Fax: 610-807-6003 >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 13, 2009 7:43 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* NET SEND alternatives for Vista XP environment. >> >> >> >> Are there free alternatives to the old "NET SEND" command that could be >> sent from a Vista workstation to multiple Windows XP workstations such that >> a free form message could be displayed to the end user at the remote XP or >> Vista workstation? >> >> So far our only thought was a vbs script that could echo a statement sent >> to it via psexec from the Vista machine. Is there a 'better way?' >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *This message, and any attachments to it, may contain information that is >> privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. >> If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are >> notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or >> communication of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received >> this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail >> and delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. * >> > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
