Staff favorites folder.

[Ste_Harve]

How do you all allow staff to keep the favorites?

 

My network is running on mandatory profiles and when the machine is rebooted, all local profiles are deleted. I've had some staff come to me asking why they can't save their favorites. Is there anyway round this?

 

Cheers,

 

Ste

[molesm]

At our school we redirect everyones favoties to their work area, hence they are saved, its a registry mdofication I can look it up if you want

[Geoff]

Here's an ADM template to do it.

 

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/guyt/archive/2006/11/18/Redirecting-IE-Favorites-via-GPO.aspx

http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/guyt/entry4648.aspx

[Ste_Harve]

If you could look it up that would be great. Don't mind for the kids but the staff are annoying!!!

[GlennT]

Hi Ste,

Try this....

http://www.amset.info/loginscripts/ie-favorites.asp

Cheers,

Glenn.

[molesm]

Its in

Hkey_Current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\user shell folders

and

Hkey_Current_user\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\ shell folders

 

One of them overrides the other but we just have both looking to the favorites folder in the home folder

[Ste_Harve]

Thanks for that, I've used the GPO template and have applied it. Will have to wait and see if it works!!

 

Thanks again everyone.

 

Ste

[Geoff]

Just bear in mind you might need to go digging around local profiles for 'lost' favourites. This mainly happens for staff who sit at the same PC all the time (office staff usually).

[Ste_Harve]

Well it's tuff, i told them before the holidays that favorites would be changing, a lot backed them up by writing the url down!!!!

[Slartibartfast]

Redirecting 'Favourites' in this fashion appears to stop group policy assigned favourites appearing.

 

Other than that, it works perfectly.

[Geoff]

Yes I suggest you use a login script to robocopy predefined favourites into their networked favourites folder.

[seanmh]

Have a look at Kixtart for creating useful login scripts

 

You can make reg changes as people log in as part of the script. I do mine like this

 

$RC=WRITEVALUE("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders","Favorites","P:\Favorites","REG_EXPAND_SZ")

 

Works a treat and allows staff to access their favourites from any machine on the network.