[THIN] Re: IE cookie bloat
- From: Magnus Hjorleifsson <magnus@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:32:38 -0500
Kevin
You bring up good points however if you are load balancing a xenapp desktop or
using stateless vdi desktops this poses a huge problem as users will connect to
different servers or vdi desktops with out those settings.
This is one reason to use a profile management solution. Citrix upm is very
good, app sense gives alot mire control.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 11, 2011, at 17:45, Kevin Stewart <kevin.g.stewart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://danstechnotes.blogspot.com/2008/04/delete-cookies-script.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I run it at log off.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan Dill
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The second commented out for will actually remove the files.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> @echo off
>>>
>>> net use x: \\server\share
>>>
>>> x:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> for /d %%i in (*) do forfiles /p "%%i\cookies" /M *.txt /C "cmd /c echo
>>> @file" /D -90
>>>
>>> ::for /d %%i in (*) do forfiles /p "%%i\cookies" /M *.txt /C "cmd /c del
>>> @file" /D -90
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> %systemdrive%
>>>
>>> net use x: /d
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <image001.gif>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jason Benway
>>> System/Storage Engineer
>>> www.jsjcorp.com
>>>
>>> <image002.jpg>
>>>
>>> JSJ Corporation
>>> 700 Robbins Road
>>> Grand Haven, MI 49417
>>>
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>>
>
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