Archive for February 9th, 2010

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Tue 9 Feb 2010

Using Python to Reduce the Roaming Profile

Posted by Mike under Python, System Administration, Windows
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Roaming Profiles are a blessing and a curse. If the user uses the internet, their browser’s cached files will grow like mad. If the user downloads programs to their desktop or creates large Powerpoint files anywhere in their profile, then they have to be managed whenever the user logs in or out. There are several solutions to this problem: disk quotas, blocking the ability to download or put stuff in one’s profile, etc. In this article, I will show you how to exclude specific directories from the user’s profile using Python. (more…)

 

Tue 9 Feb 2010

Enabling Screen Locking with Python

Posted by Mike under Python, System Administration, Windows
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A few months ago, my employer needed to lock down some of our workstations to be compliant with some new software we were installing from another government organization. We needed to force those machines to lock after so many minutes elapsed and we needed to make it such that the user could not change those settings. In this article, you’ll find out how do this and as a bonus, I’ll also show you how to lock your Windows machine on demand with Python. (more…)