On 12/18/15 1:24 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
Vincent,
Thanks for your feedback.
Seems like CCK2 is a great tool. I am not able to find any documentation in
Mike's site. Do you have any? And yes, if I use it I will pay for maintainence.
It's pretty self explanatory when you use the tool. You walk through a
wizard and it generates what you need.
This post tells you what to do with the result:
https://mike.kaply.com/2015/01/13/cck2-what-now/
Mike
Thanks,
Ravi
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From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vincent
van Leijden
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 7:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise implementation
Hi Ravi,
If it wasn´t for the fact thas his tool is basicly free, I would have to start
charging Mike for referrals ;-)
As said by Brian, Firefox does not come with GPO-support build in and Mozilla
hasn´t released any official GP-tools. There have been one or two private
initiatives, but they were far from production ready and, as far as I know,
haven´t been maintained in a million years.
Besides the obvious choice for the ESR branch of Firefox for your enterprise
needs, in my humble opinion Mike Kaply´s CCK2 is the only viable option to
manage, maintain an support Firefox in an enterprise environment. (Did i just
half quote myself? :-P) The tool is basicly free and the good guy that you are,
you wil convince your superiors to pay the lousy non-mandatory $499,- a year
for support if you decide to actually use it.
See https://mike.kaply.com/cck2/ for al the details.
Kind Regards,
Vincent van Leijden
senior technical application consultant
+31 (0)70 353 80 42
Municipality of The Hague
Internal Service Department
ICT devision
P.O. box 12600
2500 DJ Den Haag
www.denhaag.nl
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:30:52 +0000
From: Ravi Kumar <[email protected]>
To: Brian Drennan <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
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Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise
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Brian,
I want to use AD to manage the Firefox implementation through GP. Currently we
only use IE and want to expand. I want to understand the challenges in managing
it from security POV.
I read about using the ESR release and to use Firefox ADM. We normally use Lan
Desk to create a package and push the updates.
Any information on challenges and security vulnerabilities in these method of
control is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ravi
From: Brian Drennan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2015 12:42 PM
To: Ravi Kumar <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise implementation
Hi Ravi,
Do you mind providing some details about your environment? Are you using System
Center Configuration Manager, or Active Directory, or some other tool as your
deployment system? Do you plan to use InstallShield in any capacity?
Thanks!
From: Ravi Kumar
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 12:57 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise implementation
Hi,
I want to understand the process to roll-out and manage Firefox
enterprise-wide. Can anyone suggest some materials in this regard that
highlights success and challenges?
Thanks,
Ravi Kumar
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:03:59 +0000
From: "Schuetz, Zach" <[email protected]>
To: Ravi Kumar <[email protected]>, Brian Drennan
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The biggest challenge is that Firefox can?t natively be configured with GP. So
any time you start using third-party add-ons, that introduces complications and
potential security vulnerabilities if they?re not maintained. It can also cause
problems when the way you have been configuring something stops working with a
new release and there isn?t a great replacement. Significant changes are only
supposed to happen with a new ESR (so about every ten months), but Mozilla
hasn?t always honored that promise in the past, particularly if your org is
dependent on plugins like Java. Also, the ESR point releases address ?major?
security issues, but not necessarily minor ones. It?s a balance between
consistency and security.
~Zach Schuetz
Middlebury College ITS
From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ravi Kumar
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:31 AM
To: Brian Drennan <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise implementation
Brian,
I want to use AD to manage the Firefox implementation through GP. Currently we
only use IE and want to expand. I want to understand the challenges in managing
it from security POV.
I read about using the ESR release and to use Firefox ADM. We normally use Lan
Desk to create a package and push the updates.
Any information on challenges and security vulnerabilities in these method of
control is appreciated.
Thanks,
Ravi
From: Brian Drennan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2015 12:42 PM
To: Ravi Kumar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>;
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise implementation
Hi Ravi,
Do you mind providing some details about your environment? Are you using System
Center Configuration Manager, or Active Directory, or some other tool as your
deployment system? Do you plan to use InstallShield in any capacity?
Thanks!
From: Ravi Kumar
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 12:57 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [Mozilla Enterprise] Quick question on enterprise implementation
Hi,
I want to understand the process to roll-out and manage Firefox
enterprise-wide. Can anyone suggest some materials in this regard that
highlights success and challenges?
Thanks,
Ravi Kumar
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