Settings tab

If access to applications is based on location, and a user starts a Terminal Server session at a certain location, he will have access to the applications that have been configured for that particular location. If the user disconnects from this session and reconnects from a different location, Workspace Control will refresh the Workspace, to update this change. As a result, the user will then have access to the applications that have been configured for the new location. If these applications have been configured for AutoLaunch, selecting this option will automatically launch these applications on a refresh of the Workspace.

Check for disabled applications each time the user opens the Start Menu. Disabled applications are marked with a red cross.

Active Setup compares registry keys at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\%APPNAME% and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\%APPNAME%. If the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry entries do not exist, or the version number of HKEY_CURRENT_USER is less than HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then the specified application is executed by Active Setup for the current user.
Enabling this option skips the "First Time Shell Init" that occurs for users that do not have an existing, locally stored profile (for example when using mandatory profiles).

Disabling Active Setup may have a positive effect on login times, but certain features (for example Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Themes) depend on the actions it performs.

A timeout period can be configured for Active Setup. For more details, see ActiveSetupTimeout.

This option prevents the automatic start of managed applications that have the application-level option Autolaunch at session start configured as Mandatory. Applications that have Autolaunch at session start configured as Voluntary are not affected.

Select this option to disable Process interception for unmanaged shortcuts globally or for exception tabs. This overrules the application-level setting If managed shortcut was not used: Intercept new process and apply configuration.

Hides applications if the configured connection state does not match the computer's current connection state. If this option is not selected, users who try to start an "offline" application will be confronted with a message.

Hides applications if the configured connection state does not match the computer's connection state. By default, "online" applications are always shown in the user's Start Menu.

When a user launches an application, the connection state of the computer is only checked against the required connection state of the application. This allows the user to change the connection state of the computer (by connecting to the corporate network), to gain access to the application without having to refresh the Start Menu. If this option is not selected, users who try to start an "online" application will be confronted with a message.

Hides applications configured to run as a Workspace Extension on computers on which the Workspace Extender has not been installed.

Enabling this option will refresh Workspace Control sessions that use the application shortcut mode Merge with unmanaged shortcuts whenever the content of the common Start menu changes due to an (un)install of a software package. As a result, the user's Start menu will reflect this change. After a software package installation has finished, it may take up to 5 seconds before the refresh is performed.

This option is not available when Windows Shell shortcut creation is set to Do not create shortcuts or Replace all unmanaged shortcuts.

Enabling this option will automatically hide any empty menus (both managed and unmanaged) from the user's Start Menu.

Enabling this option will automatically remove all managed empty folders in the user's Start Menu. Managed folders are folders that were created on the Start Menu tab at Composition > Applications.

Start a specific application if the connection state of a computer is "Offline", or if it is "Online".

These two settings allow you, for example, to configure a laptop to connect to a published Ivanti Workspace Composer when online and to a local Ivanti Workspace Composer when offline.

You can specify which application should start:

• By clicking the browse button and selecting it or by entering its ID. (You can find this ID on the application's General tab).
• By specifying an environment variable, in which you have specified the application ID as its value. The application ID or environment variable that you specify will be shown between the brackets.

It is possible to configure an application timeout and configure the session's behavior if the application is terminated before the set timeout, or when the application exceeds the set timeout.

By checking Launch before other actions the application will be run before other actions are performed, except for Automation Tasks and Execute Commands, if these have also been configured to 'run before other actions'.