Sending Messages to Remote Workstations with a Script

Recently we had been working on scripting to make our live a little easier at work.  One of the projects was the ability to send messages to users that are in other buildings or everyone.  So after a few minutes of playing I got it to work and I thought I would share it with everyone.  The script is a batch file that allows you to type in the message that you want to send out to the users.  Then this batch file creates a VB Script that will be used to create the nice popup window on the remote machine.  I have it writing the VBS script to a share to be accessed by the computers.  So here it is.

@echo off
echo ***********************************************************
echo             Tech Control Messaging System
echo ***********************************************************
echo.
echo.
echo      Enter the message you want to send out to the
echo      workstations at the prompt below.
echo.
echo.
echo.
set /p _mes=Enter the message:
echo x=msgbox (“%_mes%” ,64, “Messaging System” )  >  c:\”share name”
psexec.exe @nodelist.txt -i -s -d wscript.exe \\”share name”\message.vbs

As you can tell it uses PsExec to connect to the systems.  We use this with Windows 7 with out a problem.  The VB Script creates a popup window with a warning icon and a OK button.  This script also uses a list of computer names to send the message to called nodelist.txt.  I am sure there are plenty of other ways to get the computer names but I like this way.   The message window will look similar to the following picture:

If you don’t have a way to send out messages to users this is a good start.  I hope this helps someone.