Hiding Server Drives 1

[mjbrown]

I have a farm that a group will be running a published app that has report writing capability. This function autmatically opens Excel. When Excel gets opened, how can I hide the server drives k: and l: from the Open/SaveAs option in the toolbar and force them to save to their user directory on the data serve? I have read some opinions on this along with follow ups that state the solutions do not work (thin planet.com). This is a MF1.8 SP2 on WinTSRV 4.0 SP6a. I hope this is worded as to what I am looking for...thanks guys, great forum. Mike Brown CCA

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Hiding drives is achieved through a system policy, using the template zakwinnt.adm available in the NT resource kit.

To get Excel, or any other M$ app to default to a particular folder for saving, use Tools, options, File Locations to set the path.

I find it useful to set up default users for each group which have the paths set, to avoid having to do this on an individual basis.

I hope this answers your questions

 

[mjbrown]

Thanks, I've seen these tools used, will this also hide the drives through Excel? I also read to edit the reg key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and change the 0's to 1's of the drives I want to hide, does this also work?...this seems like it would be an easier solution, not that I'm trying to be lazy or anything. Mike Brown CCA

 

[CitrixEngineer]

For preference I avoid registry hacks where I can - although it's a fair argument to say that the policy template does much the same thing.

It's true there is a bit of a learning curve involved with policies and profiles, but IMO, it's a cleaner way of doing things. If you haven't dabbled in this black art before, I'd advise either doing this in your test environment (see my FAQs), or creating a test group and applying different settings to it and watching the results.

The policy hides drive letters from Explorer, so the answer to your first question is yes.

I hope this helps

 

[mjbrown]

Thanks for all the advice C.E. You are correct, policies and profiles are a black art. There are a couple other things we are trying to accomplish at logon, so I am writing a script in AutoIt to Hide the drives, map a user directory on the data server as well as force Word/Excel to open this user directory. Still trying to figure out where to put this script, but they have used this here before with great success. Thanks for all the Help. I'm sure I will be putting in more threads as we get deeper into Citrix here than at my last employers. Mike Brown CCA

 

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