So you have a little batch file in a win 2003 server that gets fired up on a
regular basis by the job scheduler to do something or check something and if
it runs into a problem, it needs to contact a human for help.

Are there any good ways to do that? Here is what I can think of or find:

- Send an email by calling a CScript .vbs file and use CDONTs to contact a
local email server and SMTP a message to someone. This is a kludge on a hack
and you better hope you have the email server set up.

- Install a little program like blat to send the email for you. Again, make
sure you don't change the email server and forget about this script and its
(now incorrect) config.

- Net send, but that seems to have been removed or doesn't work unless the
user has a windows messaging client running.

- Copy a READMENOW.TXT file onto the administrators desktop and wait for him
or her to log in again?

There has got to be a better way, no?


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