Send a Requires Urgent Assistance message to multiple computers

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We've also been asked to look into implementing a similar type of system.

With NetSupport Notify how do you create the groups of users to notify as we'd like the ability to send a notification to all Teachers. Can you sync this with Active Directory so this list is automatically kept up to date?

 

There are a couple of ways you can achieve this depending upon what devices your teachers log onto. If the Notify Agent has been installed on machines which the teachers log onto exclusively then you can set the department of these machines to be something like "Teachers" via the agent configurator or a machine GPO. As previously mentioned you could also set the department based on the OU the device is in.

 

If your teachers are logging onto devices which are shared by students or non-teaching members of staff who you won't wish to receive teacher notifications, you can set the department in a user GPO which is only applied to your teachers. That way the department will be dynamically set depending on who is logged into the machine.

 

If you would like any assistance with the above drop me a PM and I can arrange a remote session to help you get things configured.