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    • black3dynamiteB
      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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      • momurdaM
        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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        • bbigfordB
          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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          • bbigfordB
            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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            • pmonchoP
              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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              • jmooreJ
                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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                • jmooreJ
                  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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                  • jmooreJ
                    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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                    • black3dynamiteB
                      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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                      • jmooreJ
                        jmoore @black3dynamite
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                        @black3dynamite Task scheduler for that too

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                        • momurdaM
                          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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                          • bbigfordB
                            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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                            • jmooreJ
                              jmoore @bbigford
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                              @bbigford your totally right

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                              • black3dynamiteB
                                black3dynamite @bbigford
                                last edited by 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.

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                                • wrx7mW
                                  wrx7m
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                                  For the Outlook sigs, just copy them from a sent message.

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                                  • dbeatoD
                                    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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                                    • bbigfordB
                                      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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                                      • wrx7mW
                                        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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                                        • bbigfordB
                                          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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                                          • bbigfordB
                                            bbigford @wrx7m
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                                            @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.

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