IE Browser History and TS/Citrix

[fredmaine]

We have three terminal servers, deploying desktops to users on thin client terminals with Citrix.

All users have roaming profiles.

We are giving users Internet Explorer access, but want to lock down the browser history so users know we can review it at will.

We've used AD group policies to set browsing history to 20 days, and to lock it out so they can't change it, nor can users delete the browser history. Also, shut off the "delete browser history at logout" thing, too. This is all working.

However, when they log off, then back on, the history is gone. Vendor is telling me that the browser history is not saved into the roaming Profiles directory on the AD controller.

Can this be true? Is there no way that a person on a thin client can retain their IE browser history?

 

[fredmaine]

When I say that "delete browser history at logout" is working, I mean that we shut it off policy. The checkbox in the IE for users is un-checked and greyed out.

But it fails anyway because in spite of the above, history is not saved back to the user's Profiles folder. So when they log back in later, the history is effectively deleted anyway.

Fred

 

[tlpeter]

Why you want to know the history ?

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[fredmaine]

Basically, so that users know we know. In other words, if they know that their browsing history is retained and that management can review it at will, they'll be less likely to be visiting questionable sites.

I realize there is tracking software out there, and that I can shadow anyone real-time, but we're hoping that this would be a self-regulating policy.

I also realize that there are devices/software that will allow or deny sites but I also don't want to chase that tail. We want folks to be able to, for example, occasionally do personal browsing of a benign nature.

I was just surprised to find that the IE browsing history is not saved back to a user's roaming profile folder in the same way that their IE Favorites are.

Fred