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Ticker Tape provides a way for administrators & Help Desks to quickly and easily 'broadcast' different messages to users at multiple remote sites in a non-intrusive way. It's easy to use administr... |
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When first installed, Ticker Tape is unlicensed but functionally completely identical to a licensed version of Ticker Tape with the exception that it is limited to managing just three discrete Sites (... |
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The concept is very simple: The unobtrusive & light weight Ticker Tape Agent is installed on each workstation and configured to periodically poll a site control file that defines what message each... |
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There isn't a specific defined maximum - each site could easily contain tens (or hundreds) of thousands of workstations. The only limiting factor would be the bandwidth between the workstations and th... |
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Ticker Tape has only basic hardware needs; anything capable of running Windows 2000 or XP should be easily capable of running either the Ticker Tape Administrator or Agent. |
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Both the Ticker Tape Administrator and the Ticker Tape Agent are written in VB6 and therefore require the VB6 run time modules to be installed on the host O/S if it's not already 'built-in' (as it is ... |
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Ticker Tape is currently developed on a Windows 7 machine. Testing of the Ticker Tape Administrator and Ticker Tape Agent has taken place on the following Operating Systems:
Windows 2000
Windows... |
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Sorry to hear that – I presume you’ve read the “Getting started with Ticker Tape” document available here which gives a step by step guide to installing both the Ticker Tape Administrator and Agent so... |
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The Agent software is carefully designed to have a very small 'footprint' when running and typically consumes under 4MB of RAM.
Similarly, CPU usage is extremely low and is generally imperceptible ... |
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Version 1.4 of Ticker Tape introduced additional functionality allowing you to include some 'place holder' variables in the message that would be replaced with appropriate content when the message is ... |
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Ticker Tape Agent
The Agent software only ever communicates with the location it's configured to look at for its Message Control File - this would be internal to your organization and defined by your... |
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Within Ticker Tape a "Site" is defined as a group of workstations, running the Ticker Tape Agent software, all configured to pick up messages from the same Message Control File location.
When first... |
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