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 Deep Freeze Enterprise User Guide

Appendix D

Creating a Customized Deep Freeze Enterprise 

Console

The Deep Freeze Enterprise Console includes the ability to create a new Enterprise Console with 

limited capabilities. A customized, limited console can be distributed in your organization to allow 

certain users to perform desired tasks, while ensuring they do not have access to the full 

capabilities of the Enterprise Console.

In this example, we will create a limited Console suitable for distribution to a teacher or computer 

lab instructor. In this scenario, we want the teacher to be able to restart machines, lock the 

keyboard and mouse on demand, and send messages to the students. However, we do not want the 

teacher to be able to boot the machines into a Thawed state, uninstall Deep Freeze, or perform 

other IT-exclusive tasks.

The Console Customizer can be launched from Tools > Console Customizer.

We will leave Console functions > Activation selected. This will ensure that if the new Console is 

moved to a different computer, a One Time Password will need to be entered on the computer the 

new Console is moved to. If this security precaution is not a concern in your environment, do not 

select this option.

Console functions > One Time Password is not selected because we do not want a teacher to be 

able to reboot the computer in Thawed mode under any circumstances. If a teacher reboots the 

computer in Thawed mode, students might install unnecessary software on the computer which 

will be retained even after a reboot. 

We will leave all options under Workstation commands selected because we want a teacher to be 

able to send messages to students, and to shutdown, restart, and wake computers as required.