Log On Screen

[tabby]

Hi All

 

I have got 100 computers, when they log on I want a message box to come up, is their any kind of software which doesn't involve writing scripts.

 

Thanx

[powdarrmonkey]

Before login or afterwards?

[meastaugh1]

How about an interactive logon message with group policy?

[FN-GM]

Can i ask why you don't want to use a script?

[tabby]

I dont have time to do it

[FN-GM]

What do you want it to say, i can do it for you if you like?

[tabby]

Thank you for your reply, is there any software which is free, and easy to deploy, i'm only 16 years old, and I am very interested to learn these things, hope you will help. Thanks again.

[tabby]

I want to learn it for myself, can you provide any information for me?

[FN-GM]

I do like my scripts so I will show you this and if you find software then you can pick.

 

This is the code for the script

 

on error resume next

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

objShell.Popup "This is the message", 60, "Title"

Wscript.Quit

 

It is .VBS format and it will automatically disappear in 60 seconds

 

If you want to break a line use this:

 

& VBCR &

 

so a box with 2 lines will look like this:

 

on error resume next

Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

objShell.Popup "This is the message" & VBCR & "This is line 2", 60, "Title"

Wscript.Quit

 

If you get stuck let me know

[tabby]

thank you, I will play with it

[FN-GM]

If you can find the software as well i would also give that a go.

[srochford]

the other thing you can do in a script is launch a web browser - this can connect to (eg) an intranet page which gives you scope to put almost anything on the screen. Having got the page launching at startup it's then easy to change what it shows because you just edit the web page you don't have to touch the script. This code will create a window 1024 x 768 and take it to the web page http://server/page.htm

 

     Set oIE=createobject("internetexplorer.application")
     Do While (oIE.Busy)
       Wscript.Sleep 250
     Loop
     oIE.width=1024
     oIE.height=768
     oIE.left=0
     oIE.top=0
     oIE.visible=true
     oIE.navigate "http://server/page.htm"

[FN-GM]

good script there, if the thanks worked i would give you one.

[elsiegee40]

Tabby

 

using group policy as suggested earlier is the simplest method...

 

There are a number of script fans - I'm not one of them (and I used to be a programmer!). Personally, I only use script if I HAVE to. Some systems seem over-loaded by them making it a nightmare fore Techs other than the one that originally decided to have them.

 

Believe me, after more than 20 years in IT... there is more to life than scripts and there is often a better way of doing things!

[button_ripple]

Believe me, after more than 20 years in IT... there is more to life than scripts and there is often a better way of doing things!

 

 

Well said. ;-) I never use scripts - no need at all. The easiest way to do the message at log on is to use the Group Policy, nice and simple and that is what they are made for. Why script something from scratch when someone has already included a feature to do it for you?

 

Go for the Group Policy Tabby! I am 16 as well and trust me, policies are much easier than scripts!

[FN-GM]

Well said. ;-) I never use scripts - no need at all. The easiest way to do the message at log on is to use the Group Policy, nice and simple and that is what they are made for. Why script something from scratch when someone has already included a feature to do it for you?

 

Go for the Group Policy Tabby! I am 16 as well and trust me, policies are much easier than scripts!

 

I bet you 50p you will need to use a script one day for something

[srochford]

Scripts aren't the answer to everything (and if they're not documented then they can be a complete nightmare for the next person along) but they can give you incredible flexibility.

 

For example, you can display a notice before a user logs on using GP but I don't think you can display one after they log on and I can't think of any way you can tailor the logon message to the particular location, user, time of day etc without using a script.

 

Group policy preferences (new in Server 2008 but also available for XP/2003 - just need to be managed from Vista or 2008) remove the need for some of the scripts you might now use but not all.

 

How will you cope with creating users without using a script? We need up to 500 of them per day at the start of the year; even once term is under way we can have 20-30 per day. What about server backups? How do you make sure that all of them get done and checked without using a script?

 

Not having a go at you, just giving you food for thought :-) Things which seem easy when you have 1 or 2 computers (or even 1 or 2 hundred) get much more difficult when you have thousands of them and you grab every possible way of automating things!