In our new environment we are noticing an issue when using winkey + L when locking the client computer. When we lock with this keyboard shortcut the shortcut is also send to the session on the client and it will lock the session as well. This results in the user having to unlock his client computer and their session which is a less then ideal user experience.

How can i make sure that this double lock does not happen, is there maybe a way to disable the passthrough of a specific keyboard shortcut?

 

What we tried:

• I already tried workarounds like disabling the lock functionality via GPO which then results in another problem when disconnecting/reconnecting.
• We tried using the disabledhotkeys registry entry but it does not work with our non-persistent setup.
• Automatically synchronisch keyboard setting on the horizon view client is giving us mixed result.

 

Edited October 17, 2024Oct 17 by Erik

So, are the users in their VDI session when pressing Win+L?  Or do they have the Horizon Client minimized?

They are in their session so the screen is active, i did notice that when i was testing and the session is minimized or not selected the shortcut is not send to the session. But for users this is not an option.

What kind of endpoints are you using?

You mentioned about the registry key - is this what you are setting? 

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "DisableLockWorkstation"=dword:00000001

This will entirely disable the lock screen feature though.