{"id":1165,"date":"2012-07-27T15:13:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T15:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2012-10-02T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T19:44:06","slug":"mailbag-friday-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"MailBag Friday (#12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThinManager-Logo-144.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1514\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ThinManager-Logo-144.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>Every Friday, we dedicate this space to sharing solutions for some of the most frequently asked questions posed to our ThinManager Technical Support team. \u00a0This weekly feature will help educate ThinManager users and provide them with answers to questions they may have about licenses, installation, integration, deployment, upgrades, maintenance, and daily operation. \u00a0Great technical support is an essential part of the ThinManager platform, and we are constantly striving to make your environment as productive and efficient as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q-<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0 \u00a0I have one user that runs multiple applications. \u00a0I want to restrict permissions so when that user is running a session, they only log into the current application they are using and not log in for the others.\u00a0 Optimally, that user would have the option of manually logging into their other individual applications.\u00a0 I\u2019m assuming that the Terminal Server itself would do the clean up and log users off after 5, 10 or 15 minutes of inactivity?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0There are two settings that are set per display client that should get you the behavior that you want.\u00a0 On the Display Client Options page of the Display Client Wizard, make sure you have &#8220;Connect at Bootup&#8221; unchecked and &#8220;Always Maintain a Connection&#8221; unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>-TM<\/p>\n<p>__________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q-<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0We\u2019re adding individual user smart cards with PIN numbers as an enhanced security measure, and I want this to get passed through to Thin Manager to avoid having to reset user passwords every 60 days as they expire on each individual Terminal Server. \u00a0Can ThinManager help me avoid this tedious step?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0This should currently work <a title=\"WinTMC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinmanager.com\/products\/wintmc.php\" target=\"_blank\">WinTMC<\/a> clients connecting to Windows Server 2003 or newer servers.<\/p>\n<p>-TM<\/p>\n<p>__________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q-<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0We\u2019re currently running ThinManager version 4, and looking to upgrade to ThinManager 6.0. \u00a0I\u2019m trying to get a list of things together that are the changes\/additions from version 4 to 6. I\u2019m not finding them on your site. It is probably one of those obvious links that I\u2019m overlooking. \u00a0Please advise.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0We have two Tech Notes on this subject.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0What&#8217;s New &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinmanager.com\/technotes\/01_Intro\/WhatsNew.pdf\">http:\/\/www.thinmanager.com\/technotes\/01_Intro\/WhatsNew.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0This covers what features are added in each release.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Evolution of ThinManager Terminology\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinmanager.com\/technotes\/01_Intro\/EvolutionOfThinManager.pdf\">http:\/\/www.thinmanager.com\/technotes\/01_Intro\/EvolutionOfThinManager.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 This covers the changing of terms as the product has evolved.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-TM<\/p>\n<p>__________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q-<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0One of our previous installations is going into the hands of our IT Department. \u00a0They are looking for automatic windows updates on Windows Server 2003. \u00a0Do you think this could cause any issue for ThinManager?<\/em><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>A \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0It shouldn&#8217;t be an issue.\u00a0 There are no known issues with ThinManager regarding Windows updates.<\/p>\n<p>-TM<\/p>\n<p>__________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Every Friday, we dedicate this space to sharing solutions for some of the most frequently asked questions posed to our ThinManager Technical Support team. \u00a0This weekly feature will help educate ThinManager users and provide them with answers to questions they may have about licenses, installation, integration, deployment, upgrades, maintenance, and daily operation. \u00a0Great technical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,59],"tags":[36,47,14,3,30,106,33],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-general","category-real-world-thinmanager","tag-industrial-software","tag-industrial-solutions","tag-terminal-server","tag-thin-client","tag-thinmanager","tag-windows-server","tag-wintmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.thinmanager.com\/thinclients\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}