[THIN] Re: IE cookie bloat
- From: Kevin Stewart <kevin.g.stewart@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:45:23 -0500
Couldn't you just specify in group policy to NOT sync the cookies,
among other things?
You don't want to just delete people's cookies all willy nilly. These
cookies control preferences, usability factors, etc.
So by specifying to not sync the cookies, they won't go to group
policy, but will stay in the locally available profile. As long as the
user is on their corporate desktop nothing will change. Once they move
to another PC they'll be minus cookies, which is okay because the user
expects this other PC to not be exactly the same.
My 2 cents.
Kevin
On 1/11/11, Magnus Hjorleifsson <magnus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you run enterprise you can use UPM that will handle that bloat with
> version 3.2.2. It updates the index.dat which is a database of your cookies(
> so I am told) And deleted the stale cookies
>
> This keeps our profiles under 20 mb per user
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 14:28, Dan Dill <DanD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I wrote a VBscript a bit back that uses environment variables to hit the
>> cookies path to clean it which might be friendlier in certain
>> circumstances, however is a bit more complex than using the FOR command.
>> It’s here if you’re interested:
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>> http://danstechnotes.blogspot.com/2008/04/delete-cookies-script.html
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>> I run it at log off.
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>> The catch with profile bloat is that if you’re hand-rolling it you have to
>> also be aware of flash cookies, java cruft, the recent items folder, and
>> various other pieces…
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>> Dan Dill
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>> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Jay Moock
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:06 AM
>> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [THIN] Re: IE cookie bloat
>>
>>
>>
>> The first for will simply show you what will be deleted (so that you can
>> verify it does what you want). Be warned the list can be quite long. May
>> want to pipe it to a file and review.
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>> The second commented out for will actually remove the files.
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>> @echo off
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>> net use x: \\server\share
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>> x:
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>> for /d %%i in (*) do forfiles /p "%%i\cookies" /M *.txt /C "cmd /c echo
>> @file" /D -90
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>> ::for /d %%i in (*) do forfiles /p "%%i\cookies" /M *.txt /C "cmd /c del
>> @file" /D -90
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>> %systemdrive%
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>> net use x: /d
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>> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf Of Jason Benway
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:48 PM
>> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [THIN] IE cookie bloat
>>
>>
>>
>> We are still using standard basic MS roaming profiles. One of the things
>> we’ve seen is IE cookie bloat, sometimes there are 10’s of thousands of
>> cookies in a profile if its been around for a while. I’ve thought about
>> running ccleaner at logoff, but that deletes all cookies, is anyone
>> running a script or software to deleted only cookies older than let’s say
>> 90 days?
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>>
>> Jason Benway
>> System/Storage Engineer
>> www.jsjcorp.com
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>> JSJ Corporation
>> 700 Robbins Road
>> Grand Haven, MI 49417
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