Re: Group Policy to control custom server application

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Thanks for the answers Herb, in answer to your last question there is
nothing in place at the minute so this is from the ground up.

Here is the scenario in our organisation. HR has surveys they want
people to do when they login to there machines from time to time.
Employee Satisfaction that type of thing. So the flow is this
User logins
Based on schedule stored in SQL say a data collection form is displayed
on their screen
They take the survey and we store and report on their answers.

I was looking to have this work in a way that didn't have any software
installed on the clients machine, so basically, some sort of way to
tell the server application that a user has logged into the directory,
the app launching a form on the users machine and this sending data
back to our SQL. App launch is fine, found a way to do this, it is the
communication to the server app from the client without any service or
software installed on the client that is the problem. I guess the
easiest way is to run something from a login script that will do this.
A call to the app from the script.

Herb Martin wrote:
"Jenbo" <eamonnjennings@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the response Darren. It is a pity there is no group policy
way of doing this,

Not really since this just isn't something a GPO was designed
to do (other than run programs to perform the task at logon....)

I suppose I could try and do something with login
scripts part of a policy and alert the app that way and just shoot the
users id to the server app.

A GPO can help with that (run logon script) but a GPO has no
way to do this directly.

What would be the best way of doing this
via event-based notification -

Not the "even logs" -- but yes, a custom applicatin client-server event
is the way to think about it.

would there have to be some sort of
client service running that would alert the server, not sure what form
this notification would take.

It will depend on your application.

Tell us how you would do it MANUALLY.

Is this just a web app now? Does the app exist yet?

.

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