bastonc Posted March 17, 2009 Posted March 17, 2009 Does anyone know why Microsoft got rid of 'messenger' in the services of server 2008? Also, is there anyway of bringing it back?
FN-GM Posted March 17, 2009 Posted March 17, 2009 Net Send is also gone in Vista. They disabled it by defult in XP, they have been trying to get rid for a while. I doubt it will come back to be honest.
srochford Posted March 17, 2009 Posted March 17, 2009 In earlier operating systems it could cause problems in schools and such like - it only needs one kid to find out how to do "net send" (or to download something which uses the messenger/alerter service) and you can have chaos. Vista and Server 2008 changed the way services interact with the desktop - if you have UAC control turned on then anything which is not running as "you" (and that includes most services) can't just "do stuff" on your screen - it has to pop up a message saying "application X wants your attention" You then get to see what it has to say and you can OK etc. This makes it much, much harder to have something doing a trivial pop up on the screen. What are you trying to do? Would some kind of instant messaging be easier?
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