How to exclude Folders with random names from Roaming Profile in AD?

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balangan

Hi all,

we have Active Directory with Roaming Profiles in our network. I would
like to exclude certain folders from being copied to the Server using
the Group Policies (using the User Configuration--> Administrative
Templates--> System--> User Profile GPO).
My problem is that I would like to exclude the Firefox´s Cache
folders. Their PAth ist always different, from a user to another. For
Example:
User 1:
"Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\702sf6wf.default\Cache"
User 2:
"Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\as5alzqf.default\Cache"
The path is always similar, but the name of the Profile´s subfolder is
always different.
I tried to enter a value like
"Anwendungsdaten\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\*.default\Cache", using the
"*" sign, but had no success.
Does anyone know a way to go around this issue?

Thank you for your help

matteo
 
Hi,
My problem is that I would like to exclude the Firefox´s Cache
folders. Their PAth ist always different, from a user to another.
Click to expand...

You have to centralize the managemend of FF and redifine the users
Profile folder of FF or disable caching.

Redirect Profile:
Edit the %userprofile%\Applicationdata\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

Relevant entries:
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/default.d5a

Redefine it to IsRelativ=0 after that you can work with a different
path, that is not "relative" Profiles/default.d5a, but can be
Path=D:\%username%\ffprofile

Centralize Management, a lot of possibilities:
http://www.google.de/search?q=deployment+firefox

As FF (TB, SB, Mozilla etc) ist not Registry related, its a big effort.
There are some samples out there to script and write all "userprefs.js"
entries into registry at login time, edit/manipulate them by ADM Template
and write it back at logoff into the file.

Mark
 
Mark said:
Hi,


You have to centralize the managemend of FF and redifine the users
Profile folder of FF or disable caching.

Redirect Profile:
Edit the %userprofile%\Applicationdata\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini

Relevant entries:
IsRelative=1
Path=Profiles/default.d5a

Redefine it to IsRelativ=0 after that you can work with a different
path, that is not "relative" Profiles/default.d5a, but can be
Path=D:\%username%\ffprofile
Click to expand...


This semms to be a good solution. Thank you very much for your help.

mfg

Matteo
 
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