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Displaying message on screen (logged on or not)

mmuni

November 20, 2015 20:32

Does anyone know of a good way to display a message on a computer's screen weather its logged on or not? I currently can easily display a message on the screen of a logged on user but I need to display a message on the screen even if the user is logged off.

Example: If I walk into a lab I would like to be able to send out a deployment to my lab computers telling them to display their computer names on the screen so I can easily walk by and identify the computer I'm looking for.

I know this can be done, the lanschool software gives teachers the ability to do this.

Comments

3 comments

Jason Hanks
November 23, 2015 17:42

Hi,

A Message Step in Deploy or using msg.exe should show up on the screen even when a user is not logged in.

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mmuni
November 24, 2015 18:47

Yeah but the message step doesn't let you include variables like the computer name.

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mmuni
November 24, 2015 19:11

msg.exe worked great, thanks

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