Send pop-up to remote computer using powershell

[rohan-jannu]

Hello,

Is there any way to use Powershell to send a pop-up to remote computer?

I found following script:

$a = new-object -comobject wscript.shell
$b = $a.popup(“This is a test message from http://Techibee.com “,0,”Test message from techibee”,1)

Here:

It works locally, but it does not seem to be working on remote computer (through invoke-command…

$colComputers = get-content C:\admin\Network_Message_pcs.txt
foreach ($strComputer in $colComputers)
{


invoke-command -computername $strComputer {

$e = new-object -comobject wscript.shell
$f = $e.popup(“This is a test message from http://Techibee.com “,0,”Test message from techibee”,1)


}


}

If you have any ideas on how to get pop-up on remote computer, help would be greatly appreciated.

[donj]

Not really, no. When Microsoft retired the old Messenger service (in WinXP), they made a deliberate decision to disallow this kind of activity for security reasons.

Windows is a multi-user operating system, and each user’s environment is strictly isolated. If YOU connect to a remote computer, you get YOUR own environment, and what happens in it isn’t visible to other user sessions on the same computer.

While there are some janky workarounds, the main way companies today would achieve this is through some instant messaging platform, like Slack or Yammer or something.