Get AppSense or Citrix UPM and zap that crud out of your roaming profiles. I'd be interested to see if something like AppSense Personalization could distinguish the excess from the stuff they may need. Or maybe not. I have enough headaches without iDevice shenanigans. :-)
Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:51:25 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: Re: Allowing or not Allowing iTunes on corporate computers???? On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > ... Apple products - especially when related to iTunes ... > ... Their update process can break easily, more often on 64bit ... > ... They cache all of their installation files ... In order to support an iPad binge by some VIP PHBs, I had to get into the business of supporting iTunes on our corporate PCs. We've supposedly got things down to a science, where a batch file does the install and/or update, installing only the components we want, disabling unwanted features. If updates are cached locally, it's in "Local Settings" or some other temporary location that we're not backing up anyway. I can share the batch file, if anyone is interested. We've still got the backup bloat of iDevice backups, though. iTunes apparently stores backups of the iDevices into the user's roaming profiles. From the size of the folders, it includes all software, and maybe even media (music/video), all with opaque ID names, in a big-ball-of-mud directory tree. So it's not possible to, say, exclude (easily reinstallable) apps while preserving the user's iDevice data. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
