In a effort to increase security at one of my healthcare providers they requested a quick way their employees can lock their computers when they walk away from their computers. I found Mklnk, it is a very tiny free utility that lets you make shortcuts from command line. I decided to use this to accomplish this task. I did some research and found that the following command will lock your computer.
So I used this with mklnk.exe to make a shortcut on the users desktop, with a lock icon. Below is the batch file I used. G: is a network share containing mklnk.exe.
What this does it it passes the arguments user32.dll,LockWorkStation to the rundll32.exe, and the result is a shortcut on the all user desktop called “lock” that uses shell icon 47 (a cute lock graphic).
To use this with kaseya you have to upload mklnk.exe to the kserver, and then import the following script. Be sure to change the red to match the location you have uploaded mklnk.exe.
Script Description: Creates a Lock icon on the all user desktop silently
IF True
THEN
Execute Shell Command
Parameter 1 : md c:temp
Parameter 2 : 0
OS Type : 0
Write File
Parameter 1 : c:tempmklnk.exe
Parameter 2 : adminutilmklnk.exe
OS Type : 0
Execute Shell Command
Parameter 1 : c:tempmklnk.exe -a user32.dll,LockWorkStation -i %SystemRoot%system32SHELL32.dll -n 47 %SystemRoot%system32rundll32.exe “%ALLUSERSPROFILE%DesktopLock My Computer”
Parameter 2 : 1
OS Type : 0
Delete File
Parameter 1 : c:tempmklnk.exe
OS Type : 0
ELSE
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