psIMALerts
IT Administrators unlock the potential of your existing Microsoft Lync® or OCS® implementations with psIMAlerts: a Powershell® CmdLet to send bulk IM Alerts.
Get that important corporate, financial or IT message to all or selected staff easily and professionally with more than 12 rich message templates included: “Email Outage”, "Winning", "Success", "UpAndUp" and “Halt”. Generate additional custom message templates with your favorite HTML Editor (like Microsoft Word® or Adobe Dreamweaver®). Here are some examples:
A Corporate Announcement with the “Winning” template
Corporate Newsflash with the “Halt” template
Financial Newsflash with the “UpAndUp” template
IT Alert with the “Email Outage” template
The Powershell® to send an IM Newsflash can be as simple as a single line like:
IT Admins use the psIMAlert Target Script Generator to interactively generate a Powershell® script:
![PS C:\ > .\1-SingleTarget.ps1
psIMAlert Single Target Script Generator
# Select one of the message styles/template.
# 1-Email Outage, 2-IM Outage, 3-Test, 4-Announcement 004
Message Template [4-Announcement 004]: 4
# Select the recipient(s) by provided a Target Id.
# A target Id can be the id of an AD group or single AD account.
#
# The target id can be a SIP URI, email address, Login Id or Display Name.
# If a group id then all members (including nested members) will be recipients.
Enter Single Target Id: fredN
# Enter the text of the message.
Message Text [Test Message]:
# Enter the Subject Line of the message
Subject Line [Test Message]:
# Enter the URI of the Sender
# The sender should be a resource account that is not normally logged on
Sender [
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
var prefix = 'mailto:';
var suffix = '';
var attribs = '';
var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '=';
var addy85807 = 'imAlerts' + '@';
addy85807 = addy85807 + 'BlueQualityStudios' + '.' + 'com' + '.' + 'au';
document.write( '<a ' + path + '\'' + prefix + addy85807 + suffix + '\'' + attribs + '>' );
document.write( addy85807 );
document.write( '<\/a>' );
//-->
</script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write( '<span style=\'display: none;\'>' );
//-->
</script>This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write( '</' );
document.write( 'span>' );
//-->
</script>]:
# The powershell command generated is:
Send-Alert -Identity c872091 -SubjectLine "Test Message" -Priority Urgent -Messa
geHtmlTemplateFName "Annoucement004.html" -HtmlMessageText "Test Message" -From
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
var prefix = 'mailto:';
var suffix = '';
var attribs = '';
var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '=';
var addy88216 = 'imAlerts' + '@';
addy88216 = addy88216 + 'BlueQualityStudios' + '.' + 'com' + '.' + 'au';
document.write( '<a ' + path + '\'' + prefix + addy88216 + suffix + '\'' + attribs + '>' );
document.write( addy88216 );
document.write( '<\/a>' );
//-->
</script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write( '<span style=\'display: none;\'>' );
//-->
</script>This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write( '</' );
document.write( 'span>' );
//-->
</script>
# Executing the command
Datetime ResponseCode Uri
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
12/01/2011 9:36:12 AM 0 sip:
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
var prefix = 'mailto:';
var suffix = '';
var attribs = '';
var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '=';
var addy49732 = 'fred.natzke' + '@';
addy49732 = addy49732 + 'BlueQualityStudios' + '.' + 'com' + '.' + 'au';
document.write( '<a ' + path + '\'' + prefix + addy49732 + suffix + '\'' + attribs + '>' );
document.write( addy49732 );
document.write( '<\/a>' );
//-->
</script><script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write( '<span style=\'display: none;\'>' );
//-->
</script>This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
document.write( '</' );
document.write( 'span>' );
//-->
</script>
PS C:\ >](/s01/images/BQS_psIMAlerts_Image008.png)
Available in limited beta is our application client: IM Alerts Studio for non-IT staff. Approved staff from their corporate desktop can send IM Alerts with client software (Lync or Communicator 2007 R2) or any web browser. IM Alerts Studio comes with even more built-in templates and a full HTML Editor toolbox. Upload a text file to set the list of recipients.
Download the 14 day fully-featured trial. The single file installer will install for Lync or OCS2007R2. After the guided installation see the examples and tutorials.