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Hello!
A very good question from a customer (#2 of today)
Anyone has done a biometric authentication inside a PcVue project using Windows Hello or similar?
In my point of view the only option we have is to link PcVue to Active Directory and then flag the option to automatically login PcVue using the O/S Active Directory credentials from the current Windows session.
The limit in this case is the need to close PcVue and logoff for each user change, which is not very good for a control room.
Any experience about?
Thanks a lot!!!
Posted : 01/02/2018 4:45 pm
Hello Filippo
I answer to your post but I don't have the solution.
I asked Thierry and Benoit last december on this point :
In a control room, there is a PcVue client. Operators change regularly. How to make a change of Windows session, to logon automatically in PcVue without having to restart PcVue?
Thanks
Posted : 01/02/2018 4:52 pm
Hi Filippo,
I saw in a Great Britain project, a customers use VSphere and ACP ThinManager (now this software is send by factory system) in a RDS architecture.
The customers use a card reader (so you can replace by your biometric authentification) in a terminal screen. The authentified user start automatically a TS session and PcVue automatically too. Of course with this architecture we used Active Directory.
The brand of the card reader is waveID and we use the RFID technology.
None configurations are in PcVue. All configuration are in ACP ThinManager and ActiveDIrectory. In ACP Thin Manager, you define the session that you use in the Vsphere (of course you need to create your achitecture in VSphere).
For information in the POC that I realised, I configure PcVue in RDS, 2 servers + 10 Terminals screens + AnywhereUSB. A good game, we should be have a platform like that in our office.
Unfortunately, the ACP ThinManager and WaveID reader card are already connected when I arrived onsite.
Posted : 01/02/2018 5:14 pm
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Thanks a lot Anthony for your fast answer!!
Your customer is more exigent than mine! 🙂
In my case the user can tolerate to activate a Windows session using a generic Windows credential like "Control Room User 1" but he want to login inside PcVue project using biometric devices.
In this case we should (I think) have something that can work like an "authentication broker" between the device (Webcam for Windows Hello, Fingerprint reader), the Active Directory domain and PcVue...
Is interesting to know if someone have experience on similar configurations... :cheer:
Posted : 01/02/2018 5:33 pm
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Ciao Fabien!!!
Thanks a lot for your reference: I remember you already presented this during some events and I found it very interesting!
I will share this with the customer, even if I think that the main node is what Anthony said : we are forced to close PcVue & reopen the Windows session to do a PcVue user change, and this sometimes is unacceptable in control rooms where big projects take minutes to close & reopen.
:woohoo: :woohoo:
Posted : 01/02/2018 11:18 pm