Can someone point me in the right direction for displayed notification/alert

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I want to create a powershell script that alerts a user on a device that they have lost network connectivity.

  • Can i set an alert through WMI ?
  • Would it have to be a service running all the time and alert if network connections goes ?
  • Should i use a workflow so the script continues or just loop ?

Got a few thoughts but not sure how to go forward with it.

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WMI isn’t an “alerting” system. You could potentially have WMI trigger an event that notified your own code, sure. And I’d strongly recommend that it be a service, yes - services are designed to run in the background. But that means not writing it in PowerShell, as PowerShell is not designed to run as a continuous service. And no, Workflow isn’t designed for this, either.

I’m a little confused, though, because since at least Windows 7, there’s been a task bar alert when this happens, right? I’m guessing your users just aren’t noticing that.

In any event, I don’t personally feel PowerShell is a good solution for this. It’s going to be a kludge at best, and an ugly kludge at that. At worst, it’ll end up being a memory hog (remember, PowerShell fires up a good portion of .NET, which is a little lazy about memory).

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Thanks Don. The users are field engineers and it was to advise them. Your right, the notification is a bit small for them as they are on tablets running Windows 8.1.
I was just thinking of a script that would pop up a gui window when the connection was lost.

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Don is right but if you have to do it here is an option.
You could use a powershell script to display a message but let task scheduler look for the lost network connect event Windows Task Scheduler: Trigger an Event When Internet Connects or Disconnects

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That looks useful Jonathan, thanks. Just a solution to help some engineers. Could I script the creation of the schedule to setup on mass ?

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Absolutely check out Use PowerShell to Create Scheduled Tasks - Scripting Blog