![]() ![]() ![]() To launch the script on logon, simply replace your windows shell with cscript and the script path as per below The script is available from my pastebin here You can modify these thresholds and URLs very easily in the below. After 60 seconds if a connection to the URL still can't be established then Thinkiosk is launched regardless. After 24 seconds if a connection isn't established, the wireless control panel applet is launched. To get around the existing limitations we have created a vbscript that waits for the Thinkiosk URL to become available before launching Thinkiosk. Making Thinkiosk work smoothly with wireless If you are using Thinkiosk in an auto login, non-domain joined scenario, Thinkiosk launches very quickly, often before the wireless connection has initialized. Thinkiosk works great in wired deployments, but there are some limitations with wireless. As part of our adoption of Xenapp we wanted to modify our existing Windows 7 Thin PC image to support Thinkiosk in wired and wireless configurations. Thinkiosk is a great free product from Andrew Morgan that provides a locked down environment for launching VDI. This is effectively an internet style DMZ network that allows our internal wireless and BYOD machines to all connect in the same manner. ![]() Our solution was to provision an open wireless network and present only a pair of DNS servers and a Citrix VPX cluster into the wireless network. The challenge is how to get Windows 7 Embedded, write filtered, non-domain joined devices to connect to a wireless network and work smoothly. We have decided to go with a Xenapp model with predominately wireless devices. ![]()
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