[Technical] Announcement software

[Clark, Ian C]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-bounces at edulists.com.au 
> [mailto:tech-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Lorraine Bignell
> Sent: Friday, 27 January 2006 6:10 PM
> To: tech at edulists.com.au
> Subject: [Technical] Announcement software
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am looking for software which will allow us to display 
> announcements on a number of computers around the school that 
> are networked. We need to be able to update the announcements 
> from a central location and have them instantaneously appear 
> on all the computers. Does anyone know of software which does this.


Hi Lorraine,

As Damien Perrone has said on the Department technical forum:



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There are a heap of apps out there, have a look at
http://www.tucows.com/downloads/Windows/Internet/Chat/LANMessengers/

Also found these http://www.lantalk.net/

Unfortunately, most leverage the messenger service and you may need to
pay for them.

I am sure someone could script something like following ...[with a] a
combo of psexec and a small vbscript...

    for /f %f in (machinelist.txt) do copy message.vbs
%f\c$\windows\system32 && psexec %f wscript //i message.vbs && del
%f\c$\windows\system32\message.vbs

    message.vbs would be something like

    msgbox "This is my message!", vbokonly + vbcritical, "My Title!"

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Some explanations:

Enabling the messenger service (which many other programs 'leverage') is
fine for a business, but maybe inappropriate in a school. 

PSExec is a free utility available from
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsExec.html

Machinelist.txt would be a text file with each line containing a
computer name.

Cheers,
Clarky




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