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-----Original Message----- From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joshua wise Sent: April-21-17 10:38 AM To: Copus <[email protected]>; Enterprise <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox deployment/configuration/update guides? Hi unsubscribe me please. Thanks Sent from my Alcatel A466BGOn Apr 20, 2017 2:36 PM, "Copus, Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > FYI, I'm a noob with respect to Firefox ESR/Enterprise and this mailing list. > So please bear with me as I try to learn how to manage Firefox in the > enterprise hopefully the 'proper' way compared to the way we've always > handled it in our environment. > > My background is an admin for classroom podium computers and computer labs at > my university. In an educational setting we try to offer as much as we can > to faculty, staff, and students for maximum teaching potential and user > choice. We've always included the most recent versions both Firefox and > Chrome consumer browsers baked in our images (mainly because I think the > enterprise versions didn't exist when we first started down this path). In > our environment we run Windows 7/10, domain-joined, don't use roaming > profiles, and customize the Windows default user profile via sysprep's audit > mode. We also use a disk reboot-to-restore product called Deep Freeze which > basically means that every user login is a "new/fresh" login after every boot > or restart. We've always customized all the browsers and let these > customizations be part of the aforementioned default user profile that then > propagate into the new user's Windows profile. However, I'd like to get away > from doing it this > way and deploy the additional browsers as silent install packages after > Windows has been deployed. > > Most of our browser customizations involve making the user experience as best > as possible given our static "locked" lab environment. We disable first-run > items, reminders or annoyances and anything date-based like scheduled tasks > and such that that like to periodically 'clean up' things (including > disabling Firefox's "it looks like you haven't started Firefox in a while"), > etc. We also customize home pages, bookmarks, popup blocker exception site > lists, etc. depending on the department or situation that's requesting it. > For Firefox, some of this is done in a scripted fashion during initial > deployment while other things are handled via group policy/GPO (either login > scripts that modify browser profile files that contain such settings or just > overwriting them with a server copy). > > Recently I've learned that with the Chrome browser I don't need to go this > route of duplicating an entire browser profile anymore. Chrome seems to > support configuring all or most of the settings I need customizing using > either GPOs and/or a 'master preferences' file. These settings get picked at > user's first launch of the browser and a fresh browser's profile gets built > around it. > > So I'm looking to do the same thing above with Firefox. I'm sure it can be > done. I'd like to get away our 'big' 15-20MB Firefox default user profile > just to replicate the custom settings we want. But there's a lot of old or > outdated information out there and I don't know where to start. For example, > some tips are specific to older versions since things like file paths/names > and preference names change over time. > > Can anyone point me to any good guides/pages that cover these enterprise > management tasks that would still be relative to the most recent versions of > Firefox? > - initial deployment of Firefox > - deploying a baseline Firefox config for new users > - maintaining configuration or avoiding configuration drift (i.e. default > or enforced policies/settings) > - controlled updates of the browser and all its other components (including > having a relatively recent malware/phishing database, CRLs, etc. on the local > drive) > - anything specific to a 'lab' environment (since it can have special > circumstances that are different than normal enterprise user management) > > Are Firefox version upgrades (major, minor, and security updates) typically > handled via just deploying the latest EXE over any previous versions? > > Is there anyone here who doesn't let Firefox upgrade itself but rather use > your software deployment or patching system like Altiris/SCCM/LANDESK/Zendesk > handle it? What's the general technique? Is there anything to watch out > for? > > Any comments on the virtualization of Firefox such as with App-V? > > Sorry for the long post. I appreciate any tips or advice even if it's to > answer just one of my questions. Thanks! ;) > > -- > Scott Copus, Lab Systems Engineer > Academic Technology | Western Kentucky University > (270)745-3042 | http://www.wku.edu/it/labs > > > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" _______________________________________________ Enterprise mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe"
