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      jmoore @bbigford
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      @bbigford I honestly don't. I help them create accounts and sign in. If they are getting a machine upgrade I tell them to get everything in order first.

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        black3dynamite
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        Some of my users including myself too. Create a Mozilla and Google account and we just use our own work email address when signing up.

        You could set up a task scheduler to backup up the Firefox/Chrome and Signatures.

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          momurda
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          There are extensions for Chrome and Firefox to autobackup of bookmarks.
          You could do something like copy all the c:\username\appdata folders for a machine to a file share.

          \\fileshare\computer1\users\jsmith\appdata\*
          \\fileshare\computer1\users\auser\appdata\*
          \\fileshare\computer2\users\jdoe\appdata\*
          
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            bbigford @jmoore
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            @jmoore said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

            @bbigford I honestly don't. I help them create accounts and sign in. If they are getting a machine upgrade I tell them to get everything in order first.

            This is in the event of a critical system crash. Drive dies without warning.

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              bbigford @black3dynamite
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              @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

              Some of my users including myself too. Create a Mozilla and Google account and we just use our own work email address when signing up.

              You could set up a task scheduler to backup up the Firefox/Chrome and Signatures.

              Good idea for a few users (I sign into Firefox with my work account to back up my bookmarks related to work). But I'm looking at this for hundreds of users; possibly thousands.

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                pmoncho @bbigford
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                @bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                But I have had so many issues with redirecting AppData, and various forums also say that's not a good thing to do because of weird issues that can occur with bringing over AppData to a new PC.

                I chose to leave AppData alone. I had a bad experience bringing over some info from AppData when it caused a few issues. I ended up creating a new profile and starting over with those couple users.

                Some users will use a Firefox or Google account to store their bookmarks. For others who don't want to or don't care, I have them export their bookmarks to their redirected My Documents folder on occasion or during a pc refresh. It has worked for a long time with no major issues.

                I don't have half as many users as you do though.

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                  jmoore @black3dynamite
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                  @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                  Some of my users including myself too. Create a Mozilla and Google account and we just use our own work email address when signing up.

                  We do the same, makes it pretty easy for us.

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                    jmoore @black3dynamite
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                    @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                    You could set up a task scheduler to backup up the Firefox/Chrome and Signatures.

                    Great idea to use task scheduler, I hadn't thought of that. Will test!

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                      jmoore @bbigford
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                      @bbigford Oh I see. We have shared drives they are supposed to save everything on. Together with signing into Google or Mozilla prevents most problems for us. It's been about 3 years since someone complained about losing something here.

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                        black3dynamite @bbigford
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                        @bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                        @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                        Some of my users including myself too. Create a Mozilla and Google account and we just use our own work email address when signing up.

                        You could set up a task scheduler to backup up the Firefox/Chrome and Signatures.

                        Good idea for a few users (I sign into Firefox with my work account to back up my bookmarks related to work). But I'm looking at this for hundreds of users; possibly thousands.

                        I guess you can provide them a script that they have to run manually to backup bookmarks and signatures to a shared drive.

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                          jmoore @black3dynamite
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                          @black3dynamite Task scheduler for that too

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                            momurda @black3dynamite
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                            @black3dynamite Yes this is good, you could deploy a shortcut or script on their desktop, then they could manually run it or you could schedule task to do so.

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                              bbigford @black3dynamite
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                              @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                              @bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                              @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                              Some of my users including myself too. Create a Mozilla and Google account and we just use our own work email address when signing up.

                              You could set up a task scheduler to backup up the Firefox/Chrome and Signatures.

                              Good idea for a few users (I sign into Firefox with my work account to back up my bookmarks related to work). But I'm looking at this for hundreds of users; possibly thousands.

                              I guess you can provide them a script that they have to run manually to backup bookmarks and signatures to a shared drive.

                              Goal is to automate, doing things manual introduces too much human error.

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                                jmoore @bbigford
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                                @bbigford your totally right

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                                  black3dynamite @bbigford
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                                  @bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                                  @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                                  @bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                                  @black3dynamite said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                                  Some of my users including myself too. Create a Mozilla and Google account and we just use our own work email address when signing up.

                                  You could set up a task scheduler to backup up the Firefox/Chrome and Signatures.

                                  Good idea for a few users (I sign into Firefox with my work account to back up my bookmarks related to work). But I'm looking at this for hundreds of users; possibly thousands.

                                  I guess you can provide them a script that they have to run manually to backup bookmarks and signatures to a shared drive.

                                  Goal is to automate, doing things manual introduces too much human error.

                                  I totally agree with the manual approach can cause too much human error.

                                  Looks like Google Chrome has an option to set user data directory by using --user-data-dir command line flag. There is an option when using Chrome Policy templates to set directory too.

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                                    wrx7m
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                                    For the Outlook sigs, just copy them from a sent message.

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                                      dbeato
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                                      I responded to you on another forum but basically I said was Sync bookmarks through Firefox and Chrome Sync with their accounts. For signatures copy it from a sent message.

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                                        bbigford @wrx7m
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                                        @wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                                        For the Outlook sigs, just copy them from a sent message.

                                        Trying to do as little manual configuration long term as possible. Trying to automate everything.

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                                          wrx7m
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                                          I only use a My Documents redirect. The rest can be quite a pain to deal with.

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                                            bbigford @dbeato
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                                            @dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

                                            I responded to you on another forum but basically I said was Sync bookmarks through Firefox and Chrome Sync with their accounts. For signatures copy it from a sent message.

                                            Relying on users to log in is too much manual. Needs to be fully automated where possible.

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