Messages from the administrator are displayed in a message dialog box. Up to 10 message dialog boxes can be simultaneously displayed according to the order in which the client receives the messages.

The administrator can send messages in either text format or HTML format. Figure 2-61 shows how a text message is displayed, and Figure 2-62 shows how an HTML message is displayed.

Figure 2-61 Text message

Figure 2-62 HTML message

The title bar of the message dialog box displays an icon and a message title. The meaning of each icon is explained as follows.

• : Information
• : Caution (mildly critical information)
• : Warning (highly critical information)

If a URL is provided inside the message text, clicking the linked area starts the default browser, enabling you to browse the linked Web page. If an email address is provided, clicking it starts the default email program, enabling you to create email addressed to that address.

From the menu displayed by right-clicking the message text display area, you can copy a selected character string or select all character strings in the message text.

After you have checked the message, choose OK to close the message dialog box.

Note that clients running version 08-00 or earlier cannot display HTML messages. If you send an HTML message to such a client, the HTML tags will appear as text-format character strings.

For a client to display HTML messages, it also must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later installed.

The following notes apply to displaying messages:

• Immediately after a client is installed or updated, the PC may have to be restarted in order to display messages.
• If you log off or shut down a client while it is displaying the message dialog box, the same message dialog box is displayed when you log onto the client the next time.
• If Run the client with non-Administrator user permissions is not selected on the Security page of the Client Setup dialog box, messages are displayed only while the user who installed the client is logged on.
• If the client's OS is Windows NT and the Client starts automatically at system boot check box is cleared on the Default Running Status/Polling page in the client setup, the message dialog box is displayed only immediately after a logon.
• For clients that use the Quick User Switching Feature of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista, the following notes apply when a message is displayed by more than one user:
  
  • If a user who is viewing a message clicks the OK button, that message is not displayed for users who log in subsequently.
  • If a user who is viewing a message clicks the OK button, an error is displayed if a user who was already logged in clicks a link in the message.
• If the client's OS is Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP and similar taskbar buttons are grouped in the taskbar properties, executing an operation to close the group in the message dialog box does not close the message dialog box.
• The following elements are not supported in HTML messages:
  
  • MHTML
  • DHTML
  • Frames
  • Images, such as JPEG files and GIF files, that are stored as different files from the HTML file