[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox and OneDrive

[Robert Marcano]

On 3/18/21 1:36 PM, Eddie Rowe 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.

Maybe a better option is to run your own sync server 
https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver and schedule that server 
database to ba backed up to OneDrive with some frequency.

> 
> *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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