NetSupport Notify is based around its unique Notification Server technology.
Installed on any Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista or Windows 7 desktop or Windows 2000/ 2003 / 2008 Server, the Notification Server manages  connections to all desktop agents and ensures immediate delivery of all alerts.

NetSupport Notify also includes redundancy, allowing multiple Notification Servers to be implemented and ensuring if that one is unavailable at any time, agent connections will automatically switch to the next available  server. You can use as many notification servers as you want and they are included for free in the standard license cost. The Notification Server also controls all agent and console connections and authenticates these against unique user defined accounts and security keys, ensuring the system is only used by authorised staff. Use of NetSupport Notify can also be controlled via Active Directory policies.

Corporate communication increasingly relies on the ability to deliver  notifications via e-mail or existing telephony facilities when communicating  with staff within an office building. NetSupport Notify provides a lowcost, high-speed notification system allowing messages and alerts to be delivered  instantly to all computer users while removing the potential delays  experienced with emails entering an already busy In-Box.

For some organisations, NetSupport Notify also provides a welcome backup  for existing technology failures, such as e-mail, and an  effective tool for  delivering staff alerts and guidance, such as “the mail server will be off at5pm” or “we are experiencing difficulties with our file server”.

NetSupport Notify guarantees user attention by delivering an audible alert  with each message received and taking foreground position on a user’s  desktop. With its notification gateway component, a single message can be  delivered to staff across many sites or locations in a single action, again with  full delivery/receipt logging and reporting. Consider a network-related  crisis. It could be an e-mail server going offline or a virus spreading on your  network. Remember how many warnings you might have to send over e-mail  or by visiting users before you can begin to mitigate the situation. With NetSupport Notify it is simple. Just broadcast a message to all, check to see  they have been acknowledged and then concentrate on the job in hand.

Ever wished you had a network PA (Public Address) system? Site administrators and security personnel can use NetSupport Notify to send  emergency alerts and notifications to users efficiently. Emergency evacuations, security concerns and fire drills are just some of the scenarios  where a notification system can be an essential addition to your network  tools. Remember you can even pre-schedule alerts to occur on a daily,   weekly or monthly basis at any given time. As a corporate tool, NetSupport  Notify can be customised to reflect your corporate identity, ensuring all alerts received are instantly recognised by staff. Alerts can be delivered carrying 5 different status levels ranging from System Alerts through to  Emergency Notifications.

NetSupport Notify is from the developers of NetSupport School, the award winning classroom management software product and recipient of the Tech &  Learning “2009 Award of Excellence”, the 2009 BESSIE award winner and  2010 Bett Awards Finalist.

The need to deliver reliable and effective messaging to students across a campus has never been more essential as part of the day-to-day management of a school infrastructure. With students potentially utilising a  mixture of hardware and technology including desktops, laptops and Mac  systems, the ability to simply and quickly deliver messages direct to their devices provides a number of benefits to the faculty.

NetSupport Notify allows an administrator to deliver within seconds a clear  and concise message and instruction to all connected computers or specific  departments across a campus. Each message can carry a priority level and a  request for acknowledgment. The delivered message automatically takes  screen focus on recipient computers and can be accompanied by an audible alert. In addition, all delivered messages are recorded centrally, registering  both the time the message was delivered and acknowledged by the user. In  seconds you can view all delivered messages, filter those of interest, review  a full list of recipients and, if needed, export a summary for future analysis. Alerts can be fully branded to include the logo and colours of your school or  college to ensure immediate recognition by staff and students. Routine Alerts  can also be pre-scheduled for a fixed time and date in the future or be applied on a recurring basis. These are ideal for campus-wide events such as fire drills or routine IT system downtime.

NetSupport Notify is also increasingly used as an outbound classroom notification tool, allowing a teacher to send an immediate notification directly to their tech support team, the front office or senior staff requesting assistance in the classroom. This provides a much quicker and more effective approach than sending students out of the class to locate staff. NetSupport  Notify provides an extra level of security within an education establishment  or campus for both critical security alerts as well as routine student  communication. It does not rely on any external services, does not have any  ongoing delivery costs, and perhaps most importantly, does not require  regular management of contacts.