Setting Up Connect Actions and Auto-Applications

Users may have a better Internet experience through the use of additional programs that start seamlessly during the connection to your service. You can include connect actions and auto-applications in service profiles.

Connect Actions

A connect action runs a program on your users’ computers immediately after connecting to or disconnecting from your service. Add connect actions to perform tasks such as system maintenance. Use connect actions for smaller programs with minimal or no user interface. If you want to run programs that are larger or require user interaction, set them up as auto-applications.

What You Can Customize in Connect Actions

With the wizard you can:

For more information, see “Setting Up Connect Actions and Auto-Applications.”

Auto-Applications

Auto-applications are similar to connect actions, but they have the added capability of automatically ending the connection when the final auto-application is closed. For example, a service profile is set up to use a browser and an e-mail program as auto-applications. If the user first quits the e-mail program and then quits the browser, the connection automatically ends when the user quits the browser.

What You Can Customize in Auto-Applications

With the wizard you can:

For more information, see “Setting Up Connect Actions and Auto-Applications.”


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