Messenger service is no more in VISTA, Alternatives?

markm75 · 02-07-2007, 07:57 AM

Does anyone know of any good alternatives to the messenger service..
IE: the ability to send broadcast messages to multiple PCs, vista included?

Perhaps something other than Office Communicator, maybe a 3rd party app I'm not aware of?

As an admin, the broadcast message is vital to communicating information that is timely related to systems down time etc...

Thanks

dai · 02-07-2007, 09:40 AM

i never use it but i think they switched to this in vista
http://get.live.com/messenger/features

drumthrasher109 · 02-07-2007, 02:24 PM

no no no i think he's talking about the messenger thing in the command prompt where u type NET SEND then whoever you want to send a message to, then the message.
idk...they probably got rid of it cause its pretty much useless.

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drumthrasher109 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 153 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 My System	no no no i think he's talking about the messenger thing in the command prompt where u type NET SEND then whoever you want to send a message to, then the message. idk...they probably got rid of it cause its pretty much useless. __________________ My System: http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1391/sig1xv9.png