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CedricFischer
CedricFischer
New Member
July 11, 2025
Question

FortiClient VPN with Kiosk Mode (Assigned Access)

  • July 11, 2025
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Hello,

We'd like to set up Windows ThinClients as multi-app kiosks with Assigned Access. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/assigned-access/configure-multi-app-kiosk?tabs=intune)

We want to allow the use of FortiClient VPN and Remote Desktop. The FortiClient needs the Visual C++ runtimes installed to run, but a regular user without admin rights can't open the FortiClient within the kiosk mode. We get the error "Uncaught Exception in Main Process - Error: spawn UNKNOWN." We narrowed it down to the runtimes not being able to run with the FortiClient in that kiosk mode without admin rights. An admin account can open the FortiClient in kiosk mode with no issues. We tried setting the FortiClient to auto launch, but then we get the usual JavaScript Error because of the Visual C++ runtimes not being able to load. We allowed FortiClient to run like this in our XML for the Assigned Access:

<App DesktopAppPath="C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiClient\FortiClient.exe"/>

Is it possible to get the FortiClient VPN to run in this scenario, or is there any alternative?

1 reply

joshbergm
joshbergm
Explorer
January 16, 2026

Hi,

 

Maybe you can use the Microsoft Always On VPN solution or use the Windows built in IPSec support with a script that initiates the connection, tries to ping a loopback address on the FortiGate and if it fails, retry to establish the tunnel.

 

Goodluck!

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