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Powershell script to Launch IE.

I have the following script set to launch on a 2012 RDS server for a certain user.

Function maxIE
{
param($ie)
$asm = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")

    $screen = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen.Bounds
    $ie.Width = $screen.width
    $ie.Height =$screen.height
    $ie.Top =  0
    $ie.Left = 0
    $ie.fullscreen = $true
}


cls
$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.visible = $true
maxIE $ie
while ($ie.busy) {sleep -milliseconds 50}
$ie.navigate("https://share.domain.com/sites/PRD/Lists/In%20Transfer%20Sheet/AllItems.aspx")

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I would like to know if it possible to have it so if the end-users closes the IE Window, it will log them off?

I have them connecting from a thin client so that would just automatically log back into the RDS server.

Qlemo

There are a lot of different ways to do that, and a trivial one is to build a wait loop, checking if IE (iexplore.exe) is still running, and if not, issue the logout command.

while (get-process -name iexplore*) { sleep 5 }

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The wildcards prevents get-process from throwing an exception if no IE is found.

victordr

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but if it is a terminal server session, would it pick up other iexplore process running from other sessions?

Qlemo

Absolutely true, at least if the user is able to see all processes. Let's forget that approach, and instead use the Internet.Application object you already created:

while ($ie.HWnd) { sleep 5 }
logoff

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is much better. As soon as that specific IE is closed, the loop will stop, and log the user off, which terminates the RDS session.

victordr

ASKER

How would i add this into the script?

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Qlemo

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