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praveengthampi
Posts:25
 | | 03/24/2008 2:04 PM |
| Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To specified groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| danholme
Posts:139
| | 03/24/2008 2:24 PM |
| Group Policy Preferences (new to VSP1 and XPSP2) will allow you to set
env vars through GP
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of
praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:05 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To
specified groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and
unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in
another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| darren
Posts:181
| | 03/24/2008 3:55 PM |
| Right. The alternative is startup/logon scripts, but GPP is much easier if
you can deploy it.
As for service account profiles being on a separate drive, I'm not actually
sure how you would do this? I mean, you would have to manually move those
profiles because I don't know of a way to tell Windows that some profiles
are on one drive and some are on the other.
Darren
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:24 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Group Policy Preferences (new to VSP1 and XPSP2) will allow you to set env
vars through GP
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of
praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:05 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To specified
groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and
unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in
another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| danholme
Posts:139
| | 03/24/2008 4:10 PM |
| Sorry I missed the second ½ of the question.
Not sure WHY you'd want to do it, but you can:
Set the User Profile Path (same as you would for a roaming profile) to drive:\path\%username% (e.g. D:\ServiceProfiles\%username%)
Just like a roaming profile for the service account, only pointing to a local path. Be sure the service profile has permissions on the parent to CREATE the new profile for the first time-default permissions should do that, but TEST.
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:52 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Right. The alternative is startup/logon scripts, but GPP is much easier if you can deploy it.
As for service account profiles being on a separate drive, I'm not actually sure how you would do this? I mean, you would have to manually move those profiles because I don't know of a way to tell Windows that some profiles are on one drive and some are on the other.
Darren
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:24 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Group Policy Preferences (new to VSP1 and XPSP2) will allow you to set env vars through GP
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:05 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To specified groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| praveengthampi
Posts:25
| | 03/25/2008 5:16 AM |
| Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
Group Policy Preferences applies to WIN2k8, I suppose? We are having 2K3 and Win2K servers.
Both a and b are required to avoid disc space concerns.
Regards,
Pgt
________________________________
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:38 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Sorry I missed the second ½ of the question.
Not sure WHY you'd want to do it, but you can:
Set the User Profile Path (same as you would for a roaming profile) to drive:\path\%username% (e.g. D:\ServiceProfiles\%username%)
Just like a roaming profile for the service account, only pointing to a local path. Be sure the service profile has permissions on the parent to CREATE the new profile for the first time-default permissions should do that, but TEST.
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:52 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Right. The alternative is startup/logon scripts, but GPP is much easier if you can deploy it.
As for service account profiles being on a separate drive, I'm not actually sure how you would do this? I mean, you would have to manually move those profiles because I don't know of a way to tell Windows that some profiles are on one drive and some are on the other.
Darren
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:24 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Group Policy Preferences (new to VSP1 and XPSP2) will allow you to set env vars through GP
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:05 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To specified groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| ZJORZ
Posts:131
| | 03/25/2008 8:03 AM |
| well, it depends.... ;-)
The GPO settings can only be managed with W2K8/VistaSP1
However, they can apply to computers running 2008, Vista RTM/SP1, XPSP2 and 2003SP1/Sp2! (both x64 and x86)
see:
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2008/03/21/group-policy-preferences.aspx
REMARK: E-mail address change: "@logicacmg.com" is now "@logica.com".
Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards,
Ing. Jorge de Almeida Pinto
Senior Infrastructure Consultant
MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
Logica Nederland B.V. (BU ISA Eindhoven)
( Tel : +31-(0)40-29.57.777
( Mobile : +31-(0)6-26.26.62.80
* E-mail : Jorge.de.Almeida.Pinto@logica.com
________________________________
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org on behalf of praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Tue 2008-03-25 10:17
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
Group Policy Preferences applies to WIN2k8, I suppose? We are having 2K3 and Win2K servers.
Both a and b are required to avoid disc space concerns.
Regards,
Pgt
________________________________
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:38 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Sorry I missed the second ½ of the question.
Not sure WHY you'd want to do it, but you can:
Set the User Profile Path (same as you would for a roaming profile) to drive:\path\%username% (e.g. D:\ServiceProfiles\%username%)
Just like a roaming profile for the service account, only pointing to a local path. Be sure the service profile has permissions on the parent to CREATE the new profile for the first time-default permissions should do that, but TEST.
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:52 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Right. The alternative is startup/logon scripts, but GPP is much easier if you can deploy it.
As for service account profiles being on a separate drive, I'm not actually sure how you would do this? I mean, you would have to manually move those profiles because I don't know of a way to tell Windows that some profiles are on one drive and some are on the other.
Darren
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:24 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Group Policy Preferences (new to VSP1 and XPSP2) will allow you to set env vars through GP
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:05 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To specified groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| florian
Posts:18
| | 03/26/2008 6:03 AM |
| Howdie!
No, it does not apply to Windows Server 2008 only. What you need is have the
new Group Policy Preference CSEs (Client Side Extensions) and install them
on the clients:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729
To manage the Preference Features, you need to have a Windows Server 2008 or
RSAT installed on a Windows Vista box.
Cheers,
Florian
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of
praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Dienstag, 25. März 2008 10:17
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
Group Policy Preferences applies to WIN2k8, I suppose? We are having 2K3 and
Win2K servers.
Both a and b are required to avoid disc space concerns.
Regards,
Pgt
_____
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:38 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Sorry I missed the second ½ of the question.
Not sure WHY youd want to do it, but you can:
Set the User Profile Path (same as you would for a roaming profile) to
drive:\path\%username% (e.g. D:\ServiceProfiles\%username%)
Just like a roaming profile for the service account, only pointing to a
local path. Be sure the service profile has permissions on the parent to
CREATE the new profile for the first timedefault permissions should do
that, but TEST.
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 9:52 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Right. The alternative is startup/logon scripts, but GPP is much easier if
you can deploy it.
As for service account profiles being on a separate drive, Im not actually
sure how you would do this? I mean, you would have to manually move those
profiles because I dont know of a way to tell Windows that some profiles
are on one drive and some are on the other.
Darren
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Dan Holme
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:24 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Group Policy Preferences (new to VSP1 and XPSP2) will allow you to set env
vars through GP
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of
praveen.g.thampi@accenture.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 8:05 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Hi All,
a) Do any one know how to set environment variables through Gp? To specified
groups.
For e.g. I want all users have tmp and temp in a separated drive.
And service accounts have all variables in default place.
(because users running long SQL queries fill the C: with temp files and
unnecessary alerts are generated.)
b) Is there any problem having service accounts having their profiles in
another drive than C:? I've been advised not to do so.
Thanks in advance.
Pgt
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| praveengthampi
Posts:25
| | 03/27/2008 1:22 AM |
| Hi Florian,
Thanks for confirming that ☺
Regards,
Pgt
________________________________________
From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Florian Frommherz
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:29 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Environment variable in GP _Win2k3
Howdie!
No, it does not apply to Windows Server 2008 only. What you need is have the new Group Policy Preference CSEs (Client Side Extensions) and install them on the clients:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943729
To manage the Preference Features, you need to have a Windows Server 2008 or RSAT installed on a Windows Vista box.
Cheers,
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