Display a message

Hi this has been discussed before but I cannot find what I am looking for :(

I am after a script that will display a message when a user logs in, please can someone point me in the right direction please?

Thanks

Do a forum search for "message of the day"

I just use the VBscript msgbox function;

Code:

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msgbox "This is my message",4096,"Title of message box"

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The 4096 makes the message box a system model, which means the user can't do anything unless they click OK. The other available options are explained in this article;
http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/func_msgbox.asp

I've several scripts that display messages to users, e.g. if they are banned from the internet in my school, they get a message telling them at logon.

It's possible to make this much more elaborate and have a yes/no response for the user to agree to an AUP before they can do anything and if they don't agree for them to be logged off, but for a basic message box, the above will do it.

Mike.

AutoIT:

Code:

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MsgBox(64,"Message Of The Day","Test For Message Of The Day")

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Will show:

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/707/messagely6.jpg

@ Mattx what format do you save it as please?

@ITWombat i did do.

@maniac thanks for the link

Thank You

Z

AutoIt Scripts need to be compiled with AutoIt, or run through an interpreter.

For an easier time, put maniac's code into notepad, and save it as a text file with .vbs as the extension - then it'll just work!

Hi

Thats what i ahve done, works good :)

Thanks

Hi

How would I make it so the message will disappear in 5 seconds & can i use some code to display the users name? For example %firstname% or %username%

Thanks Allot

Under AutoIT use the @UserName macro

Thanks

How would i put a timeout on it please? Also is it possible to display the users first name only?

Z

AFAIK in VB, you'll need to use an ADSI query to grab that stuff...(so I didn't bother)

I don't use the msgbox function for popups when I did my logon script...

I used the Windows Shell Popup...

oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oWSH.Popup "my message", 5, "title"

5 = 5 seconds...

looks like a normal msgbox... not sure what other properties it can have though, never really looked into it..

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Originally Posted by Lithium

AFAIK in VB, you'll need to use an ADSI query to grab that stuff...(so I didn't bother)

I don't use the msgbox function for popups when I did my logon script...

I used the Windows Shell Popup...

oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oWSH.Popup "my message", 5, "title"

5 = 5 seconds...

looks like a normal msgbox... not sure what other properties it can have though, never really looked into it..

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Is that all the code it doesn't appear to work.

Thanks

Code:

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Dim oWSH
Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oWSH.Popup "my message", 5, "title"

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Lovely, Thanks alot.

I might be pushing it here, how can i get the username, e-mail address etc in please?

Thanks