Must apologize for being so quiet lately…I’ve been working on quite a lot of interesting posts but because of some personal issues I’ve never managed to get around to finishing any, yet! I’m also stuck in App-V packaging hell, which doesn’t help. So hopefully we should have some more posts before Christmas descends, if I can find some spare time – but just in case I don’t I’ve chucked a Christmas greeting in with this short post.
I bumped into an old issue a few days back that I’m just quickly going to take the time to remind everyone about, the problem with logoff actions not applying correctly.
AppSense Management Suite utilizes a local group policy object to run a logoff script to invoke all logoff actions. The Windows logoff architecture requires that all running applications respond within a certain defined time limit to the application close requests. If an application does not respond within the time request a black screen is displayed allowing the user to force an application closed or wait for it to close.
In order to ensure AppSense Environment Manager is not listed within the list of applications for closure, a mechanism was required to ensure the logoff process was triggered by group policy. Group policy is permitted to run as long as it requires at logoff. In order to achieve this AppSense implements a local group policy on each endpoint to run the logoff applications.
In order to ensure the process works correctly it is important to ensure that the following group policy object is not enabled within an AppSense-enabled environment – Computer Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | System | Group Policy | Turn off local Group Policy Objects processing
And that should ensure that everything runs as expected at logoff.
Finally, just in case I get further sidetracked by my personal issues and don’t have lots of exciting new content for everyone before Christmas, I’m going to take this opportunity to wish everyone all the best, and say thankyou for your continuing site visits, comments and emails. Hopefully we can all enjoy the holidays and then get back to some more interesting UVP stuff in the New Year!
Cheers!
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