help on displaying a popup message when logging in

hi

 

Is there a way to display a popup message when a user logs into the network on a client machine saying by logging in you have accepted our policies?

 

Can this done in Group Policy or does it have to be done over scripts.

 

Thanks

 

Tim

There is a GPO for setting this message before login. The registry key is LegalNoticeCaption/LegalNoticeString but I think the GPO might be "Display a message to users before login" or something like that. Someone else is bound to know it on here though

Computer config-> Windows Settings-> Security -> Local policies -> Security Options

 

Interactive logon: Message text for users.......

Interactive logon: Message title for users....

thank you!!!

Here y'go.

 

http://edugeek.net/images/policy.JPG

To display a custom message after the kids logon then try the script below.

If you run a login script (either from a GPO or from the user profiles)

then you can do it from there, if you want a GUI popup rather than a

dos-box window you could use windows scripting host ....

 

A straight forward way would be to paste the folling into a .js file and

then add the .js file to the GPO/usersettings/scripts/logon section, you

can grow from there ...

 

 

 

======= logonmsg.js ==========

 

var oShell, sMsg, sTitle, nFlags;

oShell = WScript.createObject("WScript.Shell");

 

sMsg = "First line of msg\n" +

"Second Line of msg\n" +

"Third line of message";

 

sTitle = "Title of message";

nTimeout = 30;

nFlags = 64;

 

oShell.popup(sMsg, nTimeout, sTitle, nFlags);

WScript.quit(0);

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to make it even more flash then do it with a web page:

 

 

 

Set oIE=createobject("internetexplorer.application")

Do While (oIE.Busy)

Wscript.Sleep 250

Loop

oIE.resizable=false

oIE.width=400

oIE.height=400

oIE.toolbar=false

oIE.menubar=false

oIE.visible=true

oIE.navigate "http://intranet/infopage.htm"

Do While (oIE.Busy)

Wscript.Sleep 250

Loop

wscript.sleep 10000

oIE.quit

 

this will open Internet Explorer, set the size to 400x400 (pick

appropriate values for your page) and turns off the toolbars. It then

loads a page from your intranet and displays it for 10 seconds (10,000

milliseconds) and closes.

 

Apart from the fact that this can look "prettier" it has the advantage

that "someone else" can maintain the message content - they just have to

edit the web page and a different message appears when users log on

without having to change the script.

Nice one T

Trying not to be too dense and showing my woeful inexperience, I have a question?

 

How do you navigate to the Group Policy window?

start>run>gpedit.msc

 

That will get you to the group policy editor

 

also in AD you can get to it, you can right click on an organisational unit, and go to properties and there is a group policy tab there.

 

Try that

 

Tim

also in AD you can get to it, you can right click on an organisational unit, and go to properties and there is a group policy tab there.

 

This isn't true on W2k3 server. You need to use the Group Policy Management Console in Administrative Tools instead.

 

Also if your on a WinXP workstation and have W2k domain controllers you should download and install the GPMC from MS and use it too. It makes your life a lot easier.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/default.mspx

also in AD you can get to it, you can right click on an organisational unit, and go to properties and there is a group policy tab there.

 

This isn't true on W2k3 server. You need to use the Group Policy Management Console in Administrative Tools instead.

 

Also if your on a WinXP workstation and have W2k domain controllers you should download and install the GPMC from MS and use it too. It makes your life a lot easier.

 

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/default.mspx

 

Not entirely true if you dont have GPMC installed on w2k3.. and you can get to GPMC by right clicking the OU, you just have to click open and it'll open GPMC. Should really have GPMC installed tho as it does make life alot easier.

GPMC comes as standard on W2k3 server.

Funny when i installed my w2k3 server it did not have GPMC so i would say it doesn't come as standard... not sure about DC install tho.

All my installs have been DC's.

All my installs have been DC's.

 

Hmmm doesn't this create too much replication traffic. Also it's best not burden application/DB servers with the DC overhead. This also makes your AD more robust as there are less variables to conted with.

I work at multiple sites..

Funny when i installed my w2k3 server it did not have GPMC so i would say it doesn't come as standard... not sure about DC install tho.

 

You only get the AD group policy editor when you make the server a DC. Otherwise you have to use the local security policy version.

okay okay okay. back to the point... i cant seem to get the message to display. Ive got...

 

domain.com\pupils and i right click on pupils go to group policy and edit the policy. Ive just added a new policy for the computers OU and that still doesnt work.. Am i missing something and when is the message supposed to be displayed.

 

Thanks

 

Tim

Like chinese whispers.. heads off in the wrong direction after a while..

 

Back to tim... did you do a gpupdate?

ahhhh, how is that ran? do you go to run and type gpupdate??

 

Thanks

yep

 

or gpupdate /force

 

run the above on a client and it will ask for a reboot.