[Mozilla Enterprise] Policies (w/GPO) feedback and questions

[Daniel Frey]

On 06/26/18 10:21, Ariel P wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Yes, I found out firefox is not smart enough to create a profile when
the directory does not exist. I'm trying to address that with a folder
preference and having mixed results.

Dan