Widget Creation

[ZakFarnworth]

Hello,

 

Not sure if this is the right place on the forum but here goes.

 

I have the idea of a widget that sticks to the desktop, it cannot be closed by the user, and it shows service statuses of the network in a minimised view that doesn’t block out the full desktop and shows statuses of external services. I know Microsoft 365 allows you to integrate there services api to show service status etc so would it be possible to make this in a HTA?

 

I wondered whether someone has implemented something similar?

[LeMarchand]

Pretty sure you can use BGInfo to do this, or RainMeter if you want something prettier. Not sure about keeping the latter safe from user interference though.

[ZakFarnworth]

Pretty sure you can use BGInfo to do this, or RainMeter if you want something prettier. Not sure about keeping the latter safe from user interference though.

 

I’ll take a look into this. A HTA might work or a WPF/UWF app maybe?

 

Just want it to show a service status of external things like Office 365 using the graph api, email status, and any internal messages/bulletins. Need to look into it further

[Arthur]

PowerBGInfo might be worth looking at too.

 

https://github.com/EvotecIT/PowerBGInfo

 

Being PowerShell-based it should make it easier to work with Office 365.