Explorer favorites in terminal sessions...

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Hello,

MS 2003 server - XP clients - Terminal services.

My users have roaming TS profiles setup via GPO, however when they connect
to the TS's, and open Internet Explorer(6-7), all there favorites and cookies
are missing.

Can I pass users favorites and cookies to the TS sessions?

Thanks much,

Mark
 
Re: Explorer favorites in terminal sessions...

You mean the favorites that they have created on their XP clients?
Those are stored in their normal profile. You can share them
between profiles by redirecting both to a single location. I don't
think that it is wise to do the same for cookies, since these
contain a timestamp, which could cause conflicts if they are
written to from 2 sources simultaneously.

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?TXJwdXNo?= <Mrpush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on
28 aug 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hello,
>
> MS 2003 server - XP clients - Terminal services.
>
> My users have roaming TS profiles setup via GPO, however when
> they connect to the TS's, and open Internet Explorer(6-7), all
> there favorites and cookies are missing.
>
> Can I pass users favorites and cookies to the TS sessions?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Mark
 
Re: Explorer favorites in terminal sessions...

Vera,

Yes, I mean the internet explorer favorites that exist in their normal
profiles they use when log on to the Domain from their XP workstations.

I have romaing profiles in place for both regular and TS profiles.

Are you saying to point the TS profiles (in TS Config or via GPO) to the
same directory as the regular Domain profiles?

Somehow, this scares me as I chose to have separte TS profiles for some
reason.
Just can't remember why.....


And you said "redirecting" in your post. You mean setting a Romaing profile
share on a server i.e. roaming profiles and not "folder redirection" correct?

Thanks much,

Mark



"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> You mean the favorites that they have created on their XP clients?
> Those are stored in their normal profile. You can share them
> between profiles by redirecting both to a single location. I don't
> think that it is wise to do the same for cookies, since these
> contain a timestamp, which could cause conflicts if they are
> written to from 2 sources simultaneously.
>
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>
> =?Utf-8?B?TXJwdXNo?= <Mrpush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on
> 28 aug 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > MS 2003 server - XP clients - Terminal services.
> >
> > My users have roaming TS profiles setup via GPO, however when
> > they connect to the TS's, and open Internet Explorer(6-7), all
> > there favorites and cookies are missing.
> >
> > Can I pass users favorites and cookies to the TS sessions?
> >
> > Thanks much,
> >
> > Mark
>
 
Re: Explorer favorites in terminal sessions...

No, don't point both types of profiles to the same network
location!
As you say, they should be kept separate, since they contain
different settings.
But you can safely lift out part of the data which is stored in the
profile and shares it between XP and TS sessions. One example is
the "My Documents" folder, but you can do the same for Favorites.

Maybe the easiest way to do that is to set this registry keys in a
login script:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell
Folders\Favorites
REG_EXPAND_SZ : "H:\Favorites" (or whereever you want to put them)

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
*----------- Please reply in newsgroup -------------*

=?Utf-8?B?TXJwdXNo?= <Mrpush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on
28 aug 2008:

> Vera,
>
> Yes, I mean the internet explorer favorites that exist in their
> normal profiles they use when log on to the Domain from their XP
> workstations.
>
> I have romaing profiles in place for both regular and TS
> profiles.
>
> Are you saying to point the TS profiles (in TS Config or via
> GPO) to the same directory as the regular Domain profiles?
>
> Somehow, this scares me as I chose to have separte TS profiles
> for some reason.
> Just can't remember why.....
>
>
> And you said "redirecting" in your post. You mean setting a
> Romaing profile share on a server i.e. roaming profiles and not
> "folder redirection" correct?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> You mean the favorites that they have created on their XP
>> clients? Those are stored in their normal profile. You can
>> share them between profiles by redirecting both to a single
>> location. I don't think that it is wise to do the same for
>> cookies, since these contain a timestamp, which could cause
>> conflicts if they are written to from 2 sources simultaneously.
>>
>> _________________________________________________________
>> Vera Noest
>> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
>> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
>> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>>
>> =?Utf-8?B?TXJwdXNo?= <Mrpush@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> on 28 aug 2008 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > MS 2003 server - XP clients - Terminal services.
>> >
>> > My users have roaming TS profiles setup via GPO, however when
>> > they connect to the TS's, and open Internet Explorer(6-7),
>> > all there favorites and cookies are missing.
>> >
>> > Can I pass users favorites and cookies to the TS sessions?
>> >
>> > Thanks much,
>> >
>> > Mark
 
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