On 2018-06-26 12:50, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 06/25/18 19:12, Mike Kaply wrote:
3. Most importantly, I can't find a way to redirect the bookmarks. We
map a user share and I've redirected IE to put their favorites/bookmarks
there so that they are captured during the backup. From reading online
you can manually set up a new profile location which would include the
bookmarks and other bits in the profile, but it would be more ideal to
map it to their home directory/drive via GPO. Assuming, of course, this
doesn't lead to cache information being stored on our server.
Unfortunately this is a capability that Firefox doesn't support anymore.
I'm trying to figure out if there is some clever way to do it.
Mike
I've been meddling with this today. I found out that adding a directory
symlink (mklink /d) of %appdata%\Mozilla to our mapped home drive on the
server works. Firefox creates the profile on the home drive with no
issues and I don't see any side effects from browsing this morning.
Looks like the cache data is not stored there, so that's great.
The issue I found is that gpsvc does not have create symlink permissions
on the local workstations. So using a GPO to run a script to create
these links on the first logon does not work. It looks like you can
grant this permission to users if need be though GPO, but it doesn't
appear gpsvc inherits the permission.
So the gpsvc permission model would have to be modified on our
workstations manually (as I see no way to do this centrally.) While kind
of a stop-gap solution I guess it could work in our organization as we
have only about 150 machines... I could modify them one at a time then
deploy Firefox after that's been done.
I find it interesting that you can create a new profile in
about:profiles and specify a location, but there's no way to set the
location of the default profiles.
Dan
Dan,
The "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini" file can be modified via
GPO to point to somewhere in your mapped drive.
For example, this would work:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=RemoteProfile
IsRelative=0
Path=\\yoyodyne.local\fileshare\USER\fxprofile
Default=1
You could leverage the use of GPO variables in the Path line as well, if
you deploy it as individual INI file preferences rather than a single file.
As long as the directory exists (even if it's empty), it'll work.
If the directory is empty, Firefox will deploy the default profile into it.
You'd still need a means to ensure that if a local profile exists for a
given user, it is migrated to the network share, unless you don't care
about potential data loss.
--
Ariel P
HostDime.com, Inc.
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