On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:02 PM, James Rankin <[email protected]> wrote: > All this crap goes into user's roaming profiles. Citrix UPM allows you to > manage profiles better by supplying a load of configurable options to > exclude certain folders, files, registry keys, etc. It's fairly lightweight > and solid.
The ability to exclude folders from roaming comes "in the box" Windows. I think that might let you do files, too, although I'm not sure. Registry keys, no, but I'm not worried about the size of user registry files. :-) > AppSense (the EM part, anyway) can do away with roaming profiles entirely > and replace them with a mandatory profile, backed up by an SQL Server > database that saves changes the user makes to the mandatory profile prior to > logging out, and then imports them back in at next login. Okay... and why would I want to do that? :-) Seems like it's giving me the exact same thing as roaming profiles, just more complicated and at extra cost. :) >The various > features of it are too much to cover briefly but you can include and exclude > files, folders and Registry keys from the Personalization Server by using > various different triggers and conditions. Forgive my skepticism, but I've found there are a ton of commercial products on the market that do what's already included in Windows. Quite a bit can be done with just GPO templates. Add WMI filtering and GPP extensions, and you select on all sorts of weird things. :) Of course, a lot of it could be better documented, and WMI is just plain cryptic. I suppose if AppSense makes it *easier* to do that stuff, that's a value-add. > So I was wondering if it could be configured to save the stuff you > may consider valuable and ignore the stuff that's just bloat from > these iDevice directories. In order to do that, it would have to be able to "look inside" these otherwise-opaque iDevice backup files, and understand all the inner workings of them. That would be very impressive, indeed. -- 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
