If you are an IT admin and you are always wanted to send messages to your windows users Microsoft is opening up a new option soon. IT admins will soon be able to send organizational messages to windows 11 PCS and they can appear on a lock screen desktop or above the task bar.
With the shift to hybrid work places we can see that organizations need to better connect with employees in a way that is tailored to individual situations explains heena macwan principal group product manager for windows. In a future release we will enable IT admins to target specific users with organizational messages that can appear on windows surfaces such as a lock screen desktop or above the task bar.
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IT admin can configure these messages in Microsoft end point manager and customize how messages appear who sees them and how frequently they appear. A company logo can appear a long side the messages and they can also inside web links to company URLS these could be useful for training material or as a quick blast to alert employees to something company wide.
Microsoft has used similar messages like these to entice windows users in to using edge and the company has previously never allowed app developers or third parties to generate these types of messages are certainly an improvement over the net send command from the windows XP era which allowed IT admin to send a pop messages to PCS.