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MotD on web client

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Paladin21

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Is there any way to force the web client to display the current MotD in a mandatory popup (similar to the way the native client works) in vSphere 5.1? I've got several users who ignore the dialog request to display the message, and the consequently miss important announcements. As these announcements are generally directives to do something they don't feel like doing, I'm sure this is probably passive-aggressive resistance and most of them read it anyway, but I need to be able to say with certainty that they saw and chose to ignore the message.

For reference, this is a server provided to students to work on various projects, and the lazy bastards leave their VMs running constantly when not in use and eventually run the server out of resources and slow it to a crawl. I'd add enough resources to fix the issue and be done with it, but there's a ton of projects on the servers and it isn't high enough priority to be able to get a budget request through after the state cut our funds again.
 
This may work for you.

1. In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to the vCenter Server instance.
2. Select the Manage tab.
3. Under Settings, select Message of the Day, and click Edit.
4. Type the Message of the Day, and click OK.

A warning appears at the top of the vSphere Web Client in every active user session advising users to read the Message of the Day that is set in the relevant vCenter Server system.

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/i...UID-9E988389-5911-4F78-AEE4-362E59958E67.html
 
I get the warning message fine, the problem is that people aren't actually clicking through (or claiming that they didn't). I was looking for a way to force it to pop over for them, but thanks.
 
I hate to necro my own thread, but I never did get any feedback, and none of my experiments have allowed me to achieve the end result that I want. I need a way to enable the MotD function on the web client to automatically pop over the web page, instead of displaying the banner and asking people to click on it to read. Anyone have experience with this?
 
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