10-15 minutes isn’t bad, considering that through ConfigMgr, it could take several hours, depending on the policy refresh. Unfortunately, I would imagine that this is still heavily reliant upon client DNS records being correct. This could be … potentially problematic. J

Looks pretty inexpensive and worthwhile … thanks for the recommendation.

If you have the ability to multicast across your target audience’s network, you might consider ACEMessage.  www.spydaman.com It is not SCCM integrated, but it does integrate nicely with AD, allowing you to send messages to AD security groups of computers or users (or whole OUs).  It doesn’t have AD filtering though, like all machines whos building is XXXX or searching on other AD values.  At the time I was searching for a solution, it was the only one I could find that would target security groups of computers.  Most other apps were user centric and very expensive.  This product is under $1000 for an unlimited enterprise license and much less for a smaller shop.

It will do Unicast messaging too, but it is pretty slow as you might imagine.  Sending 3000 messages Unicast takes ~10-15 minutes for us.  More if a high percentage of machines are off, so we don’t use it too much.  I would be really happy with it if we were able to multicast on our network.  Support is kind of iffy – e-mail only, but the product is not complex. 

From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 15:58
To: mssms@lists.myITforum.com
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use SCCM for Mass Notification

From: Hemsell, Todd <Todd.Hemsell@lyondellbasell.com>
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use SCCM for Mass Notification
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 3:18 PM

I downloaded that HTA from the link he sent. It will work same in SMS as it does in landesk.

same app, different delivery engine.

I would hate to use SMS for that though....

From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Kissinger
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:58 PM
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
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From: Hector C. <cortez00@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [mssms] Use SCCM for Mass Notification
To: mssms@lists.myitforum.com
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 1:21 PM

Check this out guys.. SAN landesk provided.  Preety cool.  Does anyone know of any applications that can provide this service that will link to SCCM?

 

http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-4461;jsessionid=1AD7355E7068D14E35CC660316A5D0D9

A few years ago, we tried something like that.  The only problem was "managing expectations".  Mgmt wanted something "instant".  ConfigMgr isn't instant.  As long as whoever is requesting this understands it's a scheduled thing--and you need a 'window' of time to get the message out and some prep time--sure.  It's not a "it's 2:55pm now, and by 3pm everyone will have this message popup", sure.

Sherry Kissinger
Microsoft MVP - ConfigMgr
mofmaster@myitforum.com

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