Handling user AppData - Windows

[black3dynamite]

@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.

[wrx7m]

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

[dbeato]

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.

[bbigford]

@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.

[wrx7m]

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

[bbigford]

@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.

[bbigford]

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

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

Agreed. I don't typically care about AppData.

[dbeato]

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

I get it...

[wrx7m]

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

[dbeato]

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

[wrx7m]

@dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

@dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

Good point. I didn't see RDS in the OP, though. Also, I would hope his RDS servers are regularly backed up (including user profiles)

[bbigford]

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

For an organization that has roughly 2k users, often enough that I want to automate it.

[bbigford]

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

@dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

Good point. I didn't see RDS in the OP, though. Also, I would hope his RDS servers are regularly backed up (including user profiles)

RDS is separate from file services (where RDS is used at remote offices). All systems are backed up (VMware/Veeam environment). Doesn't apply to this thread though so I didn't bring it up.

[wrx7m]

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

@dbeato said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@wrx7m said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@bbigford said in Handling user AppData - Windows:

@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.

Are you the one that creates their signatures in the first place? If not, they can copy and paste that from a sent message in a few seconds. It is way easier than creating a signature from scratch.

Edit: Also, how often do you have a system fail this bad, where copying and pasting a signature is TMW?

Unless they have multipe RDS servers

Good point. I didn't see RDS in the OP, though. Also, I would hope his RDS servers are regularly backed up (including user profiles)

RDS is separate from file services (where RDS is used at remote offices). All systems are backed up (VMware/Veeam environment). Doesn't apply to this thread though so I didn't bring it up.

I figured It was more of an aside.

[coliver]

I wonder if urbackup would be able to do what you want. If it's exclusively for backup.