[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox and OneDrive

[Robert Solomon]

I have been down this road with windows roaming profile folder redirects.

You really really don't want to redirect the user's appdata folder which
contains the firefox profile.  This doesn't work perfectly, in my
experience, some files fail to close on logout, at least with a Samba
server.  I ended up backpedaling out of this.

If it worked perfectly, say OneDrive is somehow much better that CIFS, stop
and think about what happens the first time a user logs on from two
locations with the same profile at the same time.  If they succeed, what
happens when they log out? And then log out form the second profile?

thanks,

Bob


On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:37 PM Eddie Rowe <eddie.rowe at tdhca.state.tx.us>
wrote:

> Our organization has not yet adopted OneDrive, but I have begun setting up
> the group policy to see what it can do.  I do not see a way to specify
> other folders on the PC to backup other than the option to redirect
> Documents, Desktop and Picture.  Unless I am overlooking something I don’t
> believe you can sync things as simply as checking a box in OneDrive.
>
>
>
> Just thinking out loud here, but you could have a scheduled task that runs
> when the employee logs onto the PC that copies over items from the Firefox
> profile over to the OneDrive folder structure.  I have setup scheduled
> tasks like this in the past so that PST files were copied to a network
> location so the employee could not forget to backup those pesky PSTs.
>
>
>
> *From:* Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org> *On Behalf Of *Verstraete,
> John
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 10, 2021 9:23 AM
> *To:* enterprise at mozilla.org
> *Subject:* [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox and OneDrive
>
>
>
> I am looking for a way to sync me Firefox profile with OneDrive, I know
> that there is a sync service inside Firefox and can be used in the same
> manner as OneDrive but it is company policy we use OneDrive for these
> purposes. One of the largest reasons why we want to use this feature is of
> course have users retrieve their settings no matter which pc they logon to
> but also during pc refreshes it allows for a faster turnaround when all
> user data is stored into one cloud service.
>
>
>
> I have read articles on add-ons and extensions that can be installed but
> this doesn’t seem like a good fit, it would be nice to be able to natively
> configure Firefox to sync profiles with OneDrive. Has anyone done this or
> is it possible, if it is not possible is it in the works to make it
> possible?
>
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