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Deep Freeze Enterprise - Advanced Maintenance & Autologon
TECHNICAL WHITEPAPER
Last modified: June 25, 2009
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- Page 1 International Tel: +1 604-637-3333 International Fax: +1 604-637-8188 www.faronics.com © 1999 - 2009 Faronics Corporation. All rights reserved. Faronics, Deep Freeze, Faronics Core Console, Faronics Anti-Executable, Faronics Device Filter, Faronics Power Save, Faronics Insight, Faronics System Profiler, and WINSelect are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Faronics Corporation.
- Page 2 ENTERPRISE Introduction This white paper provides detailed instructions to set up a Deep Freeze Maintenance Period and perform updates that require a user to be logged on to the computer. Normally, Deep Freeze can perform any updates on the workstation because it has local system privileges, but when the updates are allocated on servers that require authentication access, an autologon script must be run.
- Page 3 ENTERPRISE Add an Event for each day of the week that the Maintenance Period will occur. Enter the time to start the Maintenance Period in the Start Time field. Optional: Check Disable Keyboard and Mouse to prevent the keyboard and mouse from functioning on the computer during the Maintenance Period.
- Page 4 ENTERPRISE Select the computers to be updated and click Send. This updates all the selected computers’ configuration on-the-fly, meaning the computers don’t have to be in the Thawed state for the configuration updates to take place. Creating the Autologon and Autologoff Registry Files Before tweaking the registry, do a full system backup. If anything goes wrong, data may be lost and Windows may need to be reinstalled.
- Page 5 ENTERPRISE In the File Name field, type and click Save. AutologOFF Establish the domain name, account name, and password of the account that performs updates. Since this account is used to modify Registry settings, it must belong to the Administrators group. Assign values for: DefaultDomainName, DefaultUserName, and DefaultPassword.
- Page 6 ENTERPRISE The DefaultDomainName and DefaultUserName values may already exist. The DefaultPassword value may not. If it does not, complete the following steps to create it: A. On the Edit menu, click New > String Value. In the Value Name field, type DefaultPassword C.
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