Configuring Device User Access

Workstation Connect Administrator's Guide

This feature allows the administrator to control whether the user can launch specific applications from the Workstation Connect desktop home screen UI. Once the administrator configuration is applied, the Workstation Connect desktop UI is restricted to prevent the user from accessing the disabled methods(s) to launch the restricted applications or settings on the external monitor.

Restrictions include the ability to individually or collectively prevent the following methods from being used to launch restricted applications or settings.

Administrators can allow or disable specific configurable options by selecting from the menu. Configurable options include:

Enabling or blocking a user from launching a specified application from the Desktop All Apps Panel.

Enabling or blocking a user from launching an application and its specified activities from an existing desktop shortcut.

Enabling or blocking a user from accessing all or specified activity for the application to be added as a shortcut.

Enabling or blocking a user from launching all activities for the application from a notification in the notification panel.

Enabling or blocking a user from moving all or specified activity for an application from the mobile computer to the desktop using the taskbar.

Enabling or blocking a user from moving all or specified activity for an application from the desktop to the mobile computer from the taskbar.

Enabling or blocking the visibility of specific application icons from displaying in the taskbar.

If the intended use case does not require the device user to launch an application on the desktop, set all the parameters mentioned above to Disallow.