msg.exe / netsend - anything availible on Windows 7?

Hi,

There is a script to make MSG behave like the old "NET SEND" in Windows 7. Just click on the links below to see details:

http://pedrofln.blogspot.com/2011/08/net-messenger-script-for-windows-72008.html

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/A-net-messenger-script-for-810f8331

Professional has it as well, though I have never been in a situation where it would work.

True, vista and windows 7 cannot do "net send" and MSG only works to terminal servers or to local PCs.

I wrote a script to do popups on both XP, VISTA, and WINDOWS 7.  Read the comments, because you must turn on powershell remote execution to get this to work.

@echo off

rem --- John Neumann, 23mar2011

rem --- Windows7 msg.exe only works on your local PC or over network to

rem --- Terminal Servers, but you cannot msg.exe remotely to a workstation.

rem --- This script allows you to do like the old pre-vista "net send"

rem --- to send to all PCs and Servers on your Active Directory domain.

rem --- All PCs need powershell remote executions turned on and this

rem --- could be seen as a security risk.

rem --- Put this command into your logon script or group policy:  

rem --- powershell enable-psremoting -force

if '%1'=='' (

   echo Usage:  netsend.bat "Thing to say to all networked PCs & Servers"

   pause

   goto :EOF

)

rem --- %%~NXa gets rid of leading directory type \ characters,

rem --- doing filename only (which is host name in this case)

echo Your taskbar will temporarily have many minimized processes as I send messages.

for  /f "usebackq" %%a in ( net view^|find "\\" ) do (

  echo msg to %%~NXa

  start /MIN /NORMAL "title msg to %%~NXa" powershell -command Invoke-Command -Computername %%~NXa {msg.exe * %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9}

)

echo Your taskbar will temporarily have many minimized processes as I send messages.

echo Each taskbar process will go away as messages complete.

rem --- Done

Free LAN messenger can be an alternative

http://www.bigantsoft.com