How to Managing Firefox Settings with Group Policy?

Hi
Is there any way to manage Firefox Settings through Windows group policy?
I want to replace Firefox with IE in the network but don't know how to customize the settings with GPO.

There are some third party solutions that have worked for others in the past:
You would need a user.js file and a lock file with a list a preferences please see the instructions on how to do this:
*[kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences]
*[https://mike.kaply.com/2014/12/16/managing-firefox-with-group-policy-and-policypak/]

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Hi,
How do you want to edit the printer connection? Do you want to edit the path of printer connection?
Based on my test, we can’t edit the printer connection directly in GPO. We can edit the path of printer connection in printer management.
For detail steps, we can refer to the method Miles Zhang provided in the following link:
Where is "Printer Connections set"?
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/77e2b4be-7372-4cb2-9d21-bca83f472fc3/where-is-printer-connections-set?forum=winserverGP
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First
of all thanks for taking the time to read this. I must let you know that I have limited experience with Group Policy so here it goes...
Domain Controllers are 2008 R2 Datacenter and client computers are Win7 Pro with IE10
I need to add several sites to the "Compatibility View settings" in IE10 and have these pushed out via Group Policy.
I followed this to enable the "Use Policy List of Internet Explorer 7 sites:"
Use
Policy List of Internet Explorer 7 sites
I even added the settings to both User Configuration as well as Computer Configuration. However the computers on the domain wouldn't show these sites in
IE even after forcing a GP update (gpupdate /force)
Yes I did use top level domain names.
Next I installed the Administrative Templates for Windows Internet Explorer 10 on the DC:
Administrative Templates for Windows Internet Explorer 10
this gave me an Inetres.adm file while I put in the same location as my other .adm files that Group Policy Manager sees (located at C:\Windows\SYSVOL\domain\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Adm)
I do see a bunch of .ADMX files located at C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
on the DC. I also see a lot of .ADML files located at C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US.
Where is my Central Store located that my Group Policy references? How do I know what location GP is reading from?
Now I installed the Administrative Templates (ADMX) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 from here:
Administrative Templates (ADMX) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and
Windows 7
This gave me a "Win7-2008R2-admx.msi" package that I installed. I took the defaults and extracted contents to:
C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\Server 2008 Win7\PolicyDefinitions
Are all of these .ADMX files supposed to be placed into my Central Store?
If I mouse-over "Administrative Templates" in Group Policy Manager is says that the policy definitions are retrieved from the local machine.
I then right-clicked on top of "Administrative
Templates" in Group Policy Manager and highlighted Inetres and selected Delete.
While in Add/Remove Templates I click on Add and it defaults to looking for "Policy Templates" and will not let me select and .ADM/.ADML/.ADMX files.
What am I doing wrong here?
How do I know that I'm using the most recent Inetres file?
How do I know which file Group Policy Manager is using to manage the IE settings that are in:
User Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Internet Explorer->Compatibility View->Use Policy List of Internet
Explorer 7 sites
or
Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Internet Explorer->Compatibility View->Use Policy List of
Internet Explorer 7 sites.
Is there anything else you can suggest?
Many, many thanks in advance for any response

Hi,
Regarding your question, usually we create a Central Store for Administrative Templates (Both .admx and .adml files), and create a folder that is named PolicyDefinitions in the following location:
\\FQDN\SYSVOL\FQDN\policies. The .adml files on the Windows computer
are stored in a language-specific folder. For example, English (United States) .adml files are stored in a folder that is named "en-US." When you have copied all .admx and .adml files, the PolicyDefinitions folder on the domain controller should contain the
.admx files and one or more folders that contain language-specific .adml files.
Please refer to the following articles. You will get more helpful details about the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Template files.
How to create the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Template files in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929841
Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Group Policy Central Store
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/12/09/windows-7-windows-server-2008-r2-and-the-group-policy-central-store.aspx
Based on your description, I understand you enable the setting “Use Policy List of Internet Explorer 7 sites”. However, didn’t show any sites in IE in client even after forcing a GP update
(gpupdate /force). Please use command “gpresult” in clients to collect the GPOs, and then check whether the GPO contain the setting “Use Policy List of Internet Explorer 7 sites” was applied to clients or wasn’t.
In addition, you also can change the related setting by using registry directly.
Follow the path of the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Policies->Microsoft->Internet Explorer->BrowserEmulation->PolicyList. (Create registry folders
manually if not present)
Right Click
PolicyList ->New->String Value->Enter the name of the website. (Both under ‘Name’ and ‘Data’. For example,
Value name: example.com Value data: example.com)
There is a similar question, please read as a reference.
Add manually URL on Compatibility View List in IE10
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/5a15e861-d106-471e-a968-fdea15e31c45/add-manually-url-on-compatibility-view-list-in-ie10
Hope this helps.
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I need to turn off IPv6 EUI address randomization. It can be done in netsh (a few commands) or powershell (Set-NetIPv6Protocol -RandomizeIdentifiers Disabled). How can I do this in group policy without scripting?

Hi Jordan,
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It seems that we can't configure this setting via native policy.To configure IPv6 settings,
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Managing Dock settings with WM

Is there a way in Workgroup Manager to manage the "Download" Icon on the Dock for a group preference?
I would like to always manage the Dock for our users under the group account settings. Now in WM I see check marks for "My Applications" and "Documents" which work fine (they change to display as a stack instead of what the default OS views as a folder but whatever, I can live with that).
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*[kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences]
*[https://mike.kaply.com/2014/12/16/managing-firefox-with-group-policy-and-policypak/]

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How can I deploy EFS using Group Policy and automatically encrypt computers for ALL users who login?

How can I deploy EFS using Group Policy and Active Directory with a goal to automatically encrypt computers for ALL users who login? (NOT an option for me to use BitLocker)
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Pin Programs on the Windows 7 Taskbar & Start Menu with Group Policy (Windows Server 2008 R2)

Dear ALL,
I want to Pin Programs on the Windows 7 Taskbar & Start Menu with Group Policy (Windows Server 2008 R2) as per below description. Can someone please help me how to proceed and achieve this.
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https://www.google.de/search?q=windows+7+pin+to+taskbar+vbs
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Deploying Files with Group Policy - Help Needed

Hi,
I am trying to use group policy to deploy files and folders to our server estate. The policy I have created first creates a folder on each server's C drive and then coppies a set of files to this folder from a network share. The folder creation works fine
but the files copy fails. In the Application logs on the servers it displays the following error:
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The copy is on a file server share. presumably if I just give everybody read access to the share that would suffice?
No it won't.
"Sharing" requires several actions:
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I think you've neglected action (c).
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Can't Remove IE Maintenance settings from group policy

Dear Techies,
In group policy under IE Maintenance I configured
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can anybody please help me to solve this issue.
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3.   Log off and test. If the issue persists, please help to collect gpresult log.
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\\FQDN\Sysvol\FQDN\Policies\<GPOGUID>\User\Microsoft\IEAK
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%windir%\System32\GroupPolicy\User\Microsoft\IEAK
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