Right Click Tools Version 4.0 – Kiosk Manager

Kiosk Manager

Right Click Tools Version 4.0

In Right Click Tools Enterprise, if you’re familiar with 3.2 and you’re looking through 4.0, you will notice that Lab Manager is no longer there. Fear not, the feature sets you’ve come to rely on are still in 4.0, but separated out in to two feature subsets: Kiosk Manager & Unified Write Filter. We’ll focus on Kiosk Manager in this post.

Kiosk Manager Overview

Kiosk Manager is a way to apply several settings to a machine or group of machines to lock it down, or turn it into a single use machine… like a kiosk, for example. 🙂

First, create a Profile using “Manage Profile”

For this example, lets display all of the options.

Now that we have a Template, let’s apply it to a machine and see what happens. Right click on the machine, and go to “Apply Profile”

So we apply the Library Profile, Deploy it Immediately, it will reboot the machines to apply, which is also a good reason to schedule it.

After the reboot, the machine performs the auto-logon with the account information provided, it then launches the replacement shell, in this case, Chrome.  

So, it had some of the desired effects, but since we’re using the whitelist, it only shows the content of the items added to that list, apparently many of the graphics are hosted under a different domain name. Open “Developer Mode” in Chrome, and grab the other URLs that are needed, and an update to the WhiteList Tab in the Template.

After you make a change to the template, you have to RE-Apply it.

Now the machine will apply the updated template, reboot, and have your changes applied.

There we go, that looks better. Auto Logon to Chrome Browser with the Default Website set to RecastSoftware.com and the user is blocked from making modifications. If the Kiosk is left unattended for 30 minutes, it reboots to a fresh state.

To get the most out of Kiosk Manager, leverage GPO to set lock screen settings, power options, and other control features.  

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Other Kiosk Manager Posts:

• Top Use Cases for Locking Down Devices in ConfigMgr (Using Kiosk Manager)
• Customer Q&A: Lock Down Computer Labs for State Testing
• How to Create Digital Signage Players in ConfigMgr (using Right Click Tools)
• Recast Kiosk Deployment via Task Sequence

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