This issue extends from desktops, to laptops and to thin clients too and it often bugged me how often I spent entering my password twice each day. When you’re local workstation locks out you need to re input your workstation password, then re input your password again in the remote session… irritating and unnecessary.įrom a security perspective its necessary to configure a secure screensaver on their desktop in the datacenter to ensure any connecting device receives a password prompt when the user is idle a certain amount of time, but it can be a management nightmare to exclude users from receiving double password prompts from managed windows devices. Often when using the XenApp, XenDesktop or even Citrix VDI in a Box, double prompting for passwords from windows devices is both common and a pain in the backside. I’m a bit torn about whether to publish it or not so if you want to add to the feedback drop me an email on big thanks to Mike Stanley, Kees Baggerman, Simon Pettit & Dan Garcia for the feedback!Ĭaffeine will also be available in the next release of ThinKiosk. That being said, this tool will be welcomed by some (users) and hated by others (admins). I’ve also sent this out for feedback to a select few experts in the VDI market space and the feedback was very positive.

I’ve been using this tool for months, I love it and miss it when I use a workstation without this tool.

In this post I’m announcing a new little tool from my lab for managing power saving and screen saver settings while using the Citrix Receiver for windows.

Caffeine for citrix receiver mac