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

Leave the icon but hide them.  I've done that before to get around them.  

Jeff Pitsch

On 4/29/05, Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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