[Mozilla Enterprise] Create Profiles at first firefox run

[Timo Pietilä]

Tiny warning about active setup: it is not officially supported windows 
feature, so it can disappear at some point without warning. Unlikely 
soon (too many programs use it) but possible, especially now that W10 
changes features in every major upgrades.

Timo Pietilä

On 21.8.2019 15:51, Gruhm, Sebastian wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> I assume you are in a Windows environment. Maybe you want to take a look at "ActiveSetup" and how to use this. ActiveSetup build into Windows and is not Firefox related. We use this often to prepopulate usersettings stored at %appdata%, %localappdata% or HKCU. Effectively all you have to do is setup three RegKeys.
> 
> reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\FF-Settings" /ve /f /d "FF-Settings"
> reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\FF-Settings" /v "StubPath" /f /d "<FF-Folder>\doSomething.cmd"
> reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\FF-Settings" /v "Version" /f /d "1,0"
> 
> It doesn't need to be a cmd file.
> 
> If this is suitable for you and you have more questions don't hesitate and ask your questions. (Maybe not with the list involved)
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichem Gruß
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Dirk Schneider <dirk.schneider at lka-mv.de>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. August 2019 09:25
> An: Mozilla.org <enterprise at mozilla.org>
> Betreff: [Mozilla Enterprise] Create Profiles at first firefox run
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> we use Firefox with 3 profiles.
> 
> One profile with default settings is usable for Internet, the other
> profiles use special (different) proxy settings to connect to special
> environments.
> 
> So with installing firefox I can customize some general settings, like
> trust root certificates as example.
> 
> The profile will be created at first FF run.
> I can copy a folder with all three profiles and settings to the users
> appData-structure, but I can do this after first login, not at os
> rollout. So I have to do this manually, because the "runonce" is not
> working stable. And a generalized profile folder at a diffent structure,
> maybe "C:\ff-profiles" does not work because of individual settings per
> user. And every user can use some needed extensions at user base too.
> 
> 
> Is there a way I don't see to simplify the rollout of all profiles /
> settings to the user accounts?
> 
> Ah, hint: not all machines are included in a domain, some machines need
> to be separated from a domain.
> 
> 
> Suggestions welcome
> 
> 
> Dirk
> 
>