Kai Krakow <[email protected]> writes: > Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:48:57 +0100 > schrieb lee <[email protected]>: > >> Kai Krakow <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 >> > schrieb lee <[email protected]>: >> > >> >> Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I should take a >> >> look at it. >> > >> > You can use it with and without domains. What domains give you >> > through GPO is just automatic deployment of the needed registry >> > settings in the client. >> > >> > You can simply create a proper .reg file and deploy it to the >> > clients however you like. They will connect to WSUS and receive >> > updates you control. >> > >> > No magic here. >> >> Sounds good :) Does it also solve the problem of having to make >> settings for all users, like when setting up a MUA or Libreoffice? >> >> That means settings on the same machine for all users, like setting up >> seamonkey so that when composing an email, it's in plain text rather >> than html, a particular email account every user should have and a >> number of other settings that need to be the same for all users. For >> Libreoffice, it would be the deployment of a macro for all users and >> some making some settings. > > Well... Depends on the software. Some MUAs may store their settings to > the registry, others to files. You'll have to figure out - it should > work. Microsoft uses something like that to auto-deploy Outlook > profiles to Windows domain users if an Exchange server is installed. > Thunderbird uses a combination of registry and files. You could deploy > a preconfigured Thunderbird profile to the users profile dir, then > configure the proper profile path in the registry. Firefox works the > same: Profile directory, reference to it in the registry. > > I think LibreOffice would work similar to MS Office: Just deploy proper > files after figuring out its path. I once deployed OpenOffice macros > that way to Linux X11 terminal users.
It's possible --- and tedious --- to copy a seamonkey profile to other users. Then you find you have a number of users who require a more or less different setup, or you add more users later with a more or less different profile, or you need to add something to the profile for all users, and you're back to square one. I'd find it very useful to be able to do settings for multiple users with some sort of configuration software which allows me to make settings for them from an administrative account: change a setting, select the users it should apply to, apply it and be done with it. The way it is now, I need to log in as every user that needs some change of settings and do that for each of them over and over again. This already sucks with a handfull of users. What do you do when you have hundreds of users?
