Let me ask you a question – Do you currently struggle to notify your users of a upcoming change or pending patching? Do you have to try and coordinate a message with your company communications group? Do you even have a company communications group?
If you answered yes, or even no to those questions I have a product for you!
Alright alright, enough with the infomercial.
Maintenance Messenger can be used in both Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 on-perm environments. The concept is simple. What you do is enter the mailbox server your planning to patch, update, or whatever and it then generate a email to all the users on that system. You have the ability to customize that message how you want. This way your users know what is going on.
This app should eliminate unwanted calls to the help desk during, and allow you to patch without interruption.
System Requirements (As Always)
- PowerShell 3.0 or above
- Exchange Management Tools
- 2 CPUs Minimal
- 4GB RAM Minimal
Current Version “3.1”
Download the app and unzip.
A Message box will appear, Its message will be “Gathering your information” it will disappear within 5 seconds – The app is gathering your domain name for the default sender mentioned below.
Welcome to Maintmessenger! will appear. This is where you enter all the required information for the app.
- Enter the Mailbox Server FDQN
- Enter the Email Address of the Administrator or leave it default
- Enter the Subject for the email
- Enter the FDQN for your SMTP relay
- Enter the body of the message.
- Click continue
Once all the emails have been generated you will receive a notification that all jobs have been spawned.
Once all emails have been sent, you will receive a completed notification.
That’s it! That’s all she wrote! I hope it helps and simplifies your patching, or maintenance.
MaintMessenger v3.1
