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July 24th, 2004, 11:13 am
It was getting to be too much to maintain three different versions of the guide. The deployment guide has been moved to:
http://firefox.dbltree.com This site will be the primary location that is updated. Also, I have completed initial development of an automated deployment package builder. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Bob. deployment rollout enterprise unattended silent automated Last edited by T3chDad on July 30th, 2004, 12:35 pm, edited 8 times in total.
July 26th, 2004, 8:51 am
i have a question. we are using roaming profiles and is there any way to get it to automatically pull in that users favorites form IE or would they have to do that automatically?
July 26th, 2004, 9:13 am
DOH! Roaming profiles ???!!! My FixChrome.exe assumes “C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME”. My bad, I should know after 18 years in this business that I should assume nothing.
Anyway, I have fixed it so it won’t matter where the user’s profile is. It has been re-uploaded. I use a little command line utility I found called Favorites To Bookmarks And Back”. I use it from the command line to auto-convert the user’s favorites to bookmarks.
July 26th, 2004, 9:16 am
maybe i wasn't clear. the profiles are all stored on the server, but it copies everything down to coduments and settings. i was curious about the importing from favorites to bookmarks. basically..we want to assume the user knows nothing and save us the time of having to import everyone' favorites for them. I will look into this program and see how we can put it to use. Your help with this is more appreciated than you understand.
July 26th, 2004, 9:26 am
The "Favorites To Bookmarks And Back" utility linked above is what I use to do just that.
July 26th, 2004, 9:29 am
see, the only down side to this is that we need it to do it automatically for each user so that everyone gets their personal bookmarks. I was looking at the software and saw no way to have it do teh conversion in the background as to elimiate the user.
July 26th, 2004, 9:32 am
nevermind...i didn't read the notes on the wedsite...silly me
July 26th, 2004, 9:34 am
You could add a line like this to the CreateProfile.cmd or whatever script you're using to install.
This command will silently convert/import IE favorites into the Firefox profile.
July 26th, 2004, 9:44 am
i'm trying to test is by just using
C:\downloads\ftbab\Distribution\FTBAB>ftbab /auto /ftb /fav %USERPROFILE%\favori tes /book %USERPROFILE%\book.html /quiet or C:\downloads\ftbab\Distribution\FTBAB>ftbab /auto /ftb /fav c:\documents and set tings\kevinh\favorites /title book /quiet and it's telling me that it cannot open the favorites folder
July 26th, 2004, 10:26 am
Any time you use a file specification (path) with spaces in a batch file, you must enclose the full filespec in quotes.
Your example modified:
July 26th, 2004, 1:23 pm
ahhh...gotcha
July 27th, 2004, 3:19 pm
hopefully this will be my last question..does the same work for plugins as well? do i just install them on the staging machine and then follow the rest of the steps?
July 27th, 2004, 5:33 pm
Yes...I know this works for Flash, Shockwave, Oracle Jinitiator,Quicktime, and WMP.
July 27th, 2004, 5:35 pm
sweet. we are in the process of moving our entire department across to the other side of campus..Joy for moving 95-115 computers around in 12 hours, but i will sit down with this as soon as we get back up and running. Really appreciate all the help
July 30th, 2004, 6:48 am
Bump: Massive update to the guide.
Bob.
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