[THIN] Re: How to selectively disable the contents of the "All users" profile folder?

I've switched off the common programs groups for all except administrators
now but I'm still having problems getting rid of the autocreating IE, OE etc
icons in users start menus. I use StartBuild to generate start menu folders
so I really don't need MS interfering!

I tried setting the "stubpath="" entries under
HKLM\software\microsoft\active setup\installed components but the icons are
still generated. Any further suggestions?

Angus


-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrich Mack [mailto:ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 28 April 2005 12:24
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: How to selectively disable the contents of the "All
users" profile folder?


Hi Angus,

A while ago we did an upgrade from NT 4.0 TSE/Metaframe Xp FR1 to WIndows
Server 2003/Metaframe XP FR3.

We just defined the profile location as \\server\profiles\%username%\%osv%

The OSV environment variable was defined on each "type"  of server, in this
case NT4 and W2K3 respectively. That kept the 2 sets of profiles separated
and we used the office profile wizard to copy application only information
between the 2 sets of profiles. Had a script to translate the NT 4 printer
shares to 2003 printer shares (same sharename, different server) and things
worked just fine, transparent to the version of the O.S.

This was before we started using flex profiles, which in retrospect would
have been a lot better.

We've been running one 2003 site now for nearly 17 months and back-end
tuning and corrupt profile issues aside 2003 has been pretty good. However
if I had a chance to do it again we could have saved ourselves heaps of
grief by using flex profiles.

It's easy enough to turn off the All Users program files area by enabling
the group policy rule under User configuration > administrative templates >
Start Menu and taskbar, "Remove common program groups from Start Menu".

The IE shortcut on the desktop can be controlled by group policy, and the
group policy snippet (Machine) below will stop recreation of the outlook
express icon:

-----
    POLICY "Disable Outlook Express Icon Creation"
    KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed
Components\{44BBA840-CC51-11CF-AAFA-00AA00B6015C}"
        PART "Stop creation of Outlook Express shortcut" CHECKBOX
        VALUENAME "StubPath"
            VALUEON ""
            VALUEOFF ""
        END PART
    END POLICY ; Disable Outlook Express Icon Creation (regardless !!!)
-----

Matter of fact extending this for all the other stubpath entries wouldn't be
all that hard.

regards,

Rick

Ulrich Mack 
Volante Systems 


On 4/28/05, Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm just in the process of setting up my first W2K3 / MPS3 server. Our 
> main app seems very sensitive to user profile corruption so I'm 
> setting the new farm up in a semi-mandatory profile arrangement. 
> Because we already have an existing 1.8 farm and I don't want to screw 
> around with existing profiles I'm using the W2K3 ability to specify TS 
> profiles on a per-server basis, which doesn't work properly with 
> mandatory profiles, sadly. Instead, I've setup the per-server profile 
> to point to an empty folder, which forces everybody to use the 
> "Default User" profile on the server. At logoff, I use Kix to manually 
> change the profile type in the registry to mandatory, so it isn't 
> unloaded to the fileserver. This gives me a reasonable facsimile of 
> mandatory profiles without interfering with my existing farm.
> 
> However, the shortcuts in the "All users" profile are also loaded at 
> startup, adding lots of unwanted icons to users redirected start 
> menus. I don't want to just clear the folder out because 
> administrators need access to all the shortcuts. Is it possible to 
> tell W2K3 not to use the "All users" settings?
> 
> Also, my users redirected folders keep growing shortcuts for Outlook 
> Express, IE and others. I don't want these so can that "useful" 
> function be disabled as well?
>
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