ITGURU Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 Does anyone know of, or have experience of, any Desktop Alert notification software. email is all well and good but if i need to send an urgent notification for uses to see, such as an internet outage or email outage I want to be able to push out urgent message. Something which will either show in the system tray as a popup until they click off it, or a box which pops up in the middle of the screen. The messenger service was removed since XP, so just wondered what people use now . Needs to work with windows 7 and windows 10 64 bit ideally. thanks.
MartinRouterKing Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 We use Net support notify which we are really happy with! 1
ITGURU Posted February 19, 2017 Author Posted February 19, 2017 We use Net support notify which we are really happy with! It is more reliable and stable than their main product that I keep reading about?! Can you PM me rough costings? thanks.
MartinRouterKing Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 I have had no problems at all with it. Been using it for over a year now. We paid £175 for 150 licenses. You can install the tool to send messages on as many computers as you want. £35 a year for maintenance cost and upgrades!
6Foot2 Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 We use Impero to do this. I have scheduled a message every Tuesday afternoon to remind staff to take their registers, as the afternoon day pattern is different then.
Geoff Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 We use lync for this, but I imagine you could do something for free with Jabber.
chris_uk Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 NetSupport Notify, easy to install and can be used for other things, our attendance department use it for chasing staff who have not saved registers. 1
netadmin Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 I am currently looking into implementing Alertus Desktop Notification - have not started the install process yet though. https://www.alertus.com/alertusproducts/desktop
ITGURU Posted February 19, 2017 Author Posted February 19, 2017 I have had no problems at all with it. Been using it for over a year now. We paid £175 for 150 licenses. You can install the tool to send messages on as many computers as you want. £35 a year for maintenance cost and upgrades! How are the licenses calculated - is it on the number on client computers you want to receive alerts on?
MartinRouterKing Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 How are the licenses calculated - is it on the number on client computers you want to receive alerts on? Yer. Each client computer with the client on.
Chuckster Posted February 19, 2017 Posted February 19, 2017 This: Net Send GUI, Net Send Command-line Tool (freeware) - FOMINE SOFTWARE Extract the EXE to get a MSI and deploy to your workstations. It runs in the taskbar and you can select individuals or group of people you want to send messages to.
Matt_NetSupport Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 It is more reliable and stable than their main product that I keep reading about?! Can you PM me rough costings? thanks. Hi ITGURU, I think you maybe confusing NetSupport with another solution, our products are very reliable and stable! With regards to NetSupport Notify, it sounds like it meets your requirements, it is a low cost solution that allows designated staff to send messages with various options such as severity, time on screen, whether it can be dismissed by the user etc. You can also add your own school branding and the solution records read messages meaning that you can check who acknowledged what was sent. The system also provides redundancy so if the main server goes down a secondary one can be used to ensure messages can still be delivered Take a look at http://www.netsupportnotify.com (you can download a free trial) I will ask Tom or Sam to PM you with regards to price.
chris_uk Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 It is more reliable and stable than their main product that I keep reading about?! Can you PM me rough costings? thanks. We've been running NetSupport notify for some time, not had any problems with it. Also running DNA, again, we've not had any problems with it at all. Rock solid product backed by a team who listen to feedback and feature requests 1
ricki Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 We used to use a tutor to send me and a help desk to record jobs
RichCowell Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 Does anyone know of, or have experience of, any Desktop Alert notification software. email is all well and good but if i need to send an urgent notification for uses to see, such as an internet outage or email outage I want to be able to push out urgent message. Something which will either show in the system tray as a popup until they click off it, or a box which pops up in the middle of the screen. +1 for Impero, does exactly what you're looking for, and loads more...
6Foot2 Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 We use Impero to do this. I have scheduled a message every Tuesday afternoon to remind staff to take their registers, as the afternoon day pattern is different then. Back on site now so I can provide a screenshot:
Al_NetSupport Posted February 20, 2017 Posted February 20, 2017 As you have probably seen, there are a few solutions available. Impero and NetSupport DNA both provide methods as part of their suite of tools that deliver simple pop-up alerts etc. We do alos offer a really low cost solution, NetSupport Notify, that was developed sepcificly for desktop alerting, which you can send from either PC or Mobile and allows you to brand and customise the look and feel of the alerts, include custom sounds and display full screen on information panels. You can read about it here NetSupport Notify - Multi platform alerting solution or below is a brief animated video covering the main features. Price wise, a school of 500 PCs would pay £400 for NetSupport Notify - for a permanent licence. Like Rich, I am paid to promote a product, but we offer free 30 day trials so may be a good way to go ? Al.
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