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JohnTwilley
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Display Message after Logon

I know this has been discussed in the past, but thought I'd bring it up again...in case the UEM developers need enhancement ideas!

I know that many of us would like an easier method of alerting/notifying users upon login.  Whether for upcoming maintenance, or general alerts.

The Horizon Global Alert is too broad, and causes confusion for users that do not need the alert.  A per-pool alert would be best...

UEM has a Message Alert option, but is only triggered by Lock workstation, Unlock workstation, Disconnect session and Reconnect session.

If UEM added  "Connect" as a Display Message option, our lives would be greatly enhanced.    This would be a great feature enhancement!

Yes, as a work around we can add a logon task for something like:  msg %username% Notice: This is an alert.    But it is not as nice as the built-in UEM Message box.

If anyone has created a nice ALERT workaround, please feel free to share your ideas here. 

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DEMdev
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Hi JohnTwilley,

Glad to hear you like the built-in UEM message box 🙂 It's not officially documented, but I'm not planning on changing it, so:

FlexEngine.exe -m "Your title" "First line" "Second line" "Third line"

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You can add more lines by adding more arguments. If you want an empty line, specify   as the argument:

FlexEngine.exe -m "Now with an empty line" "First line" "" "Second (well, third 🙂 line"

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DEMdev
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Hi JohnTwilley,

Glad to hear you like the built-in UEM message box 🙂 It's not officially documented, but I'm not planning on changing it, so:

FlexEngine.exe -m "Your title" "First line" "Second line" "Third line"

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You can add more lines by adding more arguments. If you want an empty line, specify   as the argument:

FlexEngine.exe -m "Now with an empty line" "First line" "" "Second (well, third 🙂 line"

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JohnTwilley
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Wow.  That is very helpful!! 

I appreciate you sharing this neat little trick!  I'd have never thought to use the FlexEngine -m switch like that...

Sravan_k
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Simply super!!!

Can we use this feature as logon task?

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DEMdev
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Hi ,

Nope, as the docs state: Logon and Logoff tasks run "invisibly" so they cannot be used to start applications and do not support user interaction.

So, if you wanted to use this to show a message to the user at logon, you'd have to create a shortcut in the Startup folder, or configure this to run through File Explorer's Run key.

JohnTwilley
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I've created this as a Shortcut in the startup folder, and it is working fantastic in Windows 7 (32/64-bit) & Windows 10.

Target: %ProgramFiles%\Immidio\Flex Profiles\FlexEngine.exe

Arguments: -m "Reminder: Two Factor Authentication" "Reminder: Effective March 1st, all VDI users must register for Two Factor Authentication." "Please be sure to click the 'Two-Factor Self Registration' icon on your VDI desktop to avoid interruption to your remote access." "" "Thank you!"

Now I can target individual pools with Notices/Announcements.

Very Cool.

Anandkumar86
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Please can share the steps how to configure 

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Anandkumar86
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Please share the steps.

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