@Dashrender

Ugh, that would be nearly impossible! And worse to keep up with their changes!

@Dashrender said in URL Redirect at the Windows Workstation?:

Maybe via a proxy.

Rather than install a proxy, do you think using our internal DNS would work? a CNAME?

I have always pushed for the accounting method that has an app installed inside my network to poll the printers and then that app sends the data to the company monitoring the usage.

I MUCH prefer pushing data out of my network over opening a pinhole for someone else's use. We don't block outbound traffic if the communication was originated on the inside, so no pinholes or NATing of inbound ports.

In MOST cases, they have an option to allow my preferred method of data transfer.

Is it possible to force a URL redirect at the windows workstation level?
for example: www.example.com -> mmm.example.com

Ahhhh!!!!!! This may work! Just need to see if you can send to a phone number without creating a contact first.

Postcards from Skyetel for Skyetel SIP!
https://bitbucket.org/skyetel/postcards-installer/src/master/

@jt1001001 said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

If doing manually, first have the "admin" use this website to determine the email to SMS address for the cell phone number in question:
https://freesmsgateway.info

Then compose an email using the above info.

Don't want e-mail. Want SMS.

@JasGot said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

Well, this is depressing. You'd think they'd at least give me a list of non saturated area codes to choose from!

HA! Every Area Code in my state is saturated....

Well, this is depressing. You'd think they'd at least give me a list of non saturated area codes to choose from!

@scottalanmiller said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@JasGot said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@scottalanmiller Perfect! Except for those prices! Ugh! Might be our only option.

Works really well, at least

We pair it with Skyetel around here.

Oh! Maybe I am looking at the wrong Textable, I didn't see where you can use your own sip provider.

@scottalanmiller Perfect! Except for those prices! Ugh! Might be our only option.

@JasGot said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

What services/app have you used, and did you like it?

Let me explain better.

Today's task is to find a simple user interface to allow sms through a voip provider.
I prefer two way sms'ing, but it is not mandatory.

@Pete-S said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@JasGot said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@Pete-S said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

Seems ridiculous to have a person doing that manually each day.

Better to have someone make a script or something. Even if the management software can't do it, there is a 97.4% chance that the management software is using a database. The script could pull the appoinments directly from the database and send them as SMS.

Yep. We're trying to get access to the SQL data for queries, but it is a slow and difficult task.

Probably not too difficult. Usually you can gain access to the database if you have root/administrator rights on the computer it is running on.

What OS and SQL database are we talking about?

I need a utility to get this happening before I start a development project.
Have you used one? and what are your thoughts on it?

@scottalanmiller said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@JasGot said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@scottalanmiller said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

I think we'd need to start from the system that they need to tie to. Using what can it initiate this? Like does it send an email? Providing an SMS service for this might be moot if the software can't talk to it.

"So they are going to dedicate a person to sending txt appt reminders every day."
Their software doesn't do it, or anything like it.

That's going to be a problem. I'd start there. You need a way to generate the communications before a way to transfer it.

Not for this approach. They are dedicating a person to do that part manually.

A little more research leads me to believe I should be able to find a small utility to do what I want through a VoIP provider like Skyetel or Twillio, or voip.ms, etc

@Pete-S said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

Seems ridiculous to have a person doing that manually each day.

Better to have someone make a script or something. Even if the management software can't do it, there is a 97.4% chance that the management software is using a database. The script could pull the appoinments directly from the database and send them as SMS.

Yep. We're trying to get access to the SQL data for queries, but it is a slow and difficult task.

@scottalanmiller said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

I think we'd need to start from the system that they need to tie to. Using what can it initiate this? Like does it send an email? Providing an SMS service for this might be moot if the software can't talk to it.

"So they are going to dedicate a person to sending txt appt reminders every day."
Their software doesn't do it, or anything like it.

@pmoncho said in Need to txt appt reminders from PC. What app/services have you used?:

@JasGot

Check out https://www.callpointe.com/

This is where we want to get to. But we need to start doing it manually long before this can be implemented.

What services/app have you used, and did you like it?

I have a customer who needs this ability because their practice management software cannot do it. So they are going to dedicate a person to sending txt appt reminders every day.

I would prefer to provide them with a full computer interface, web gui is okay, (not a smartphone app) and would also like them to be able to get responses.

I am also open to polite discussion on what may be better solutions and approaches to this as I have not really explored it enough to have considered all the things that would help arrive to the best conclusion.

Thanks.

@IRJ said in Remote Access & HIPPA:

It's very important to note that FIPS 140-2 compliant is not the same as FIPS 140-2 certified

Yes! And thank you for spotting that. It's the Certification that is a total PITA.

@dafyre said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

@Dashrender said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:

... the point being that the boss demands X, you do X, and then something bad happens and you get blamed for it.

This is why I will never blindly do something. I'm sorry, I don't care if you're the janitor, or the Master of the Multiverse, I'm not doing to do something just because the boss says to do it -- Especially if it is something that will come back and bite ME for doing what my boss said to do.

Now that's not to say I won't do it. But I'm going to talk with the boss about it, get more details and have a conversation with him about why his request is a good or a bad idea, or why I don't understand why he wants it done in a particular way.

Once I understand what the boss wants, and/or have my CMA's (Cover My Ass) in writing and documented, then I'll do it, even if it is still something I don't agree with doing.

I have a brain, I'm going to use it.

You are an easy one to deal with. You're fired.