Internet lockdown solutions provided by Simpliciti

"The average employee wastes 2.09 hours per day, not counting lunch [at an annual cost of $759 billion to U.S. companies]. The vast majority, 44.7 percent, cite personal Internet use as their primary time-wasting activity."*

* America Online/Salary.com survey

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Using Simpliciti Locked Browser with Citrix

Simpliciti Locked Browser and SimLD Lite* are "no-programming-required" PC lockdown products for common-access PCs or kiosks. These products provide the easiest, fastest, most secure, and most economical way to transform your Web site and PC device for locked down Internet or PC kiosk use.

You can quickly create a limited or restricted Internet usage environment for users in places such as retail kiosks, libraries, self-serve banks, hospitals, and clinics, as well as in universities and schools.

Here is how one of our customers configured Simpliciti Locked browser for Operating In Citrix. (Thanks, Charlie. We appreciate the time you took to let us know how well it's working for you.)

We published Simpliciti to only (1) Metaframe server. This was for two reasons:

1) We presently will have only have (9) active Kiosks running (low server farm loading).

2) Since we authenticate through our Firewall to the external Internet, Simpliciti clients needed to "auto-authenticate" to the Internet. How we did this, was to not challenge authentication at the Firewall for the IP address of the Metaframe server Simpliciti was published to*.

Published application settings:

Session Window Size: 1024x768 Colors: High Color (16 Bit)

Application Limits:

Limit instances allowed to run in Server Farm: 10 Maximum Limits (Where "10" is the number of Simpliciti licenses purchased. This is how we enforce Simpliciti user licensing).

To restrict what web sites the Kiosks could visit, we selected a product called Web Inspector

http://www.zixcorp.com/compro/webinspector.php

This application works extremely well with Simpliciti.

*Although we are not publishing Web Inspector as a Metaframe application, we launch a Web Inspector LUA (Lightweight User Authentication) executable (copied onto our Metaframe Domain Controller). The way we do this is to have the published Simpliciti app' simultaneously (via a CMD file) launch the LUA executable and Simpliciti. The (auto-authenticated) Kiosk user may then be monitored/restricted by the Citrix user login name.

Using Simpliciti Locked browser resulted in an $1800 savings (based on calculations for (9) clients. )

-Charlie