Has anyone considered the iCloud backup? Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ~ 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
