547546 - Full Support for Group Policies in Thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Charles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Build Identifier: 3.0.1

I'm extremely surprised and annoyed that there isn't already a bug open for this.

Anyway, the subject says it all.

Please provide full support for managing TB - including updates, as well as full control of user preferences - using Group Policies in a Windows Domain environment.

In my opinion this is long overdue.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

See also Firefox bug 267888. If it were moved to toolkit this would be a dupe.

Comment 2

[Charles]

What does that comment mean? Is the Firefox bug for GPO support also going to provide GPO support for TB when it is implemented?

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Note: there are app specific GPO settings which would have to be implemented by the app. I'm sure once we figure this out for Firefox that we'll implement it in a way that Thunderbird will have less difficulty riding along but there will still need to be work done on the Thunderbird side.

Comment 4

[Charles]

I'm assuming this would also

Comment 5

[Charles]

Ooops, sorry, I left that comment in there when I added the dependency...

I just opened bug 548841, to formally request an MSI (.msi) installer option for Thunderbird - since it is a pre-requisite for Firefox, I'm assuming it is also for Thunderbird.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(confirming, because this is not a duplicate in TB afaict)

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think this is implemented by the bugs mentioned above, and others.