256814 - Must have profile rollout method

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Lane]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

I wish to rollout Mozilla 1.7.2 on my Windows Domain controlled network.  There
is currently no method nor any mention of any attempts or research in this area.
 I find it sad that such a great product cannot be distributed and maintained
with the ease of Internet Explorer.  I hope to move everyone on the network over
to mozilla or firefox during the next 6 months but I can only do so if a method
to distribute it is discovered.

On a side note when I am setting the cookie preferences and double click on the
bullet next to the 90 day deletion setting it is common for the mozilla
preferences box to crash and the ok button becomes useless.  I just click cancel
and repeat the preferences configuration over again.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  I need a way to streamline the configuration of mozilla for the end user
including the theme and the homepage so that users on the lan do not have to
worry about how to put the go button on the toolbar.
2.  I also need a method to remotely upgrade the software should a patch be
released as no one wants an old version of software which would be prone to
malicous attack.
3.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

My administrator does this with the installer (remote executed by a commercial
product). You can have a non-dialog version of the installer with the -ms option.

It's probably a dupe of bug 52052.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Some links:
Networking Mozilla Profiles for 2000 Users
http://www.int-evry.fr/mci/user/procacci/netscape/en/mozilla-autoconfig-en.html

mozptch is a utility for automatic customization, configuration
and personalization of mozilla installations
http://mozptch.mozdev.org/

These and more from:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=54104

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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