Skyline Roaming Profiles

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Skyline Roaming Profiles Marco Schmidt  2018-02-14 02:28
 
I already mentioned the problem in another request, but to summarize the problem I created this new request.

https://skyline.ms/announcements/home/support/thread.view?rowId=24266

Skyline hast two possible install options:
1. clickone application
2. admin install

Togehter with windows roaming profiles there are some problems.
1. is installed (incl. config) in the local part of the profile, which is removed on logout.

2. is installed in %programfiles%, but the users config is still in the local part of the profile and deleted on logout.

External Tools:
1. are installed (incl. config) in the local part of the profile and deleted on logout.

2. as mentioned on the download page, the external tools can only be installed by an administrator and the config is installed in the profile of the administrator. This makes the installation useless, because if a user runs skyline, it does not know about the installed tools.

The user can not use the tools which are installed by an administrator!

Even if the user would have administrative rights and install the tools, the config is still in the local part of the users profile, which is deleted on logout.


Now I tried to add a script which uses skylinerunner to install the tools via "one-click" for the user. But unfortunately the skylinerunner does not recognize the admin-install-skyline and downloads/installs a fresh one (which is of course deleted on logout).

Seems that I have to copy the config file to the correct location in the users profile on login.

Of course, there are several other possibilities to solve this (e.g. a local skyline user on each host, with the login and password distributed to all users).
 
 
Brendan MacLean responded:  2018-02-14 07:08
1. Maybe try using %programfiles%\Skyline\SkylineCmd.exe . This is what you should use with an administrator installation, not SkylineRunner, which is only for a user installation, and will cause the tools to be installed only for the user installation.

2. Maybe try just creating %programfiles%\Skyline\Tools and giving this folder open permissions, which would allow Skyline to install tools in it, even when run by someone without administrator permissions.

Hope these ideas help. Thanks for making the effort to install Skyline for broader use on your systems.

--Brendan
 
Marco Schmidt responded:  2018-02-18 22:51
Unfortunately this did not work.

SkylineCmd running as user is installing the Tool in the %ProgramFiles%\Skyline\Tools folder, but does not update the config of the user, which means the user does not see the Tools in Skyline.

It does not make a difference if skyline is started before running SkylineCmd or afterwards.

Good to know:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2571899/microsoft-clickonce-deployment-is-not-supported-with-roaming-profiles