Software Deployment

Is there any script to make this change effective with gpedit.msc

changing option " turn off balloon notification" to enable , there after we can update group policy with " gpupdate "


appreciate any idea or hint.

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=group+policy+balloon+notification

Hi VBscab,
I really appreciate your hint.
i found the below info in google, but as i stated my request is not recomanded.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11442-notifications-enable-disable-message-balloons.html

but as i stated my request is not recomanded the below point at above link,
7. Log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply.

So that i quoted in second post, any vbscript or registry can step out of this action and configutarion settings should effect immediately.

thanks once again.

Apologies: I forgot that GPs don't apply until a machine restart (machine policies) or the user logs off/back on (user policies).

It seems you have no choice. However, once it's set, it's set so why not apply it as a GP? That allows you to propogate it in a granular fashion (by OU, for example) and it will get applied when users log in. Since they need to do that at least once a week, you won't need to force a log off.

Hi all,

Let me get all points in same forum to make sence about My question to get solution here itslef.

step 1: http://help.wugnet.com/windows/Disable-Balloon-Notifications-Reboot-ftopict601662.html
step 2: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winforms/thread/ce540c7d-a113-4f39-956e-0af6bc91abd3/

if any one have an idea about to implement the script(as below) as a custom action ( in step 2 )

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C#
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[/align][align=left] class Program
{
[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern IntPtr SendMessageTimeout ( IntPtr hWnd, int Msg, IntPtr wParam, string lParam, uint fuFlags, uint uTimeout, IntPtr lpdwResult );[/align][align=left] private static readonly IntPtr HWND_BROADCAST = new IntPtr(0xffff);
private const int WM_SETTINGCHANGE = 0x1a;
private const int SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG = 0x0002;[/align][align=left] static void Main ( string[] args )
{
SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, IntPtr.Zero, null, SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, 100, IntPtr.Zero);
}
}
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You'll need some sort of script-to-Windows-API interface for that. There was one called DynaLib knocking around but I found it so unreliable that I wrote my own wrapper, which contained just the APIs I needed. SendMessageTimeout wasn't one of those, unfortunately.