Terminal Server 2003 & IE7 - AutoComplete fails to store data.

[Guest Megarave]

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Let's say I got 5 Terminal Servers in a single domain and all my users are

being distributed over these 5 servers when they log on. User JaneDoe ends up

on server 1 on Monday and goes on the internet and stores some data from the

forms she filled out.

 

At the end of the day she logs of and on Tuesday she logs in again, being

diverted to server 3. When she visits the exact same site (which, for matter

of troubleshooting is only being server by one webserver), her stored data is

gone and IE7 doesn't give her the option to fill out the exact same form she

did on Monday.

 

That's my problem; it seems like Terminal Servers are storing the

AutoComplete somewhere else and it is not being saved to the roaming

TSProfile as soon as a user logs off.

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Terminal Server 2003 & IE7 - AutoComplete fails to store data.

 

Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:

 

User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User

profiles

"Exclude directories in roaming profile"

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?TWVnYXJhdmU=?= <Megarave@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote on 25 jul 2007 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

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> Let's say I got 5 Terminal Servers in a single domain and all my

> users are being distributed over these 5 servers when they log

> on. User JaneDoe ends up on server 1 on Monday and goes on the

> internet and stores some data from the forms she filled out.

>

> At the end of the day she logs of and on Tuesday she logs in

> again, being diverted to server 3. When she visits the exact

> same site (which, for matter of troubleshooting is only being

> server by one webserver), her stored data is gone and IE7

> doesn't give her the option to fill out the exact same form she

> did on Monday.

>

> That's my problem; it seems like Terminal Servers are storing

> the AutoComplete somewhere else and it is not being saved to the

> roaming TSProfile as soon as a user logs off.

[Guest Megarave]

Re: Terminal Server 2003 & IE7 - AutoComplete fails to store data.

 

Vera,

 

there is not such setting configured. To be more precise; the setting is

"Not Configured" in any of the GPO's that apply within this environment.

 

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:

>

> User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User

> profiles

> "Exclude directories in roaming profile"

> _________________________________________________________

> Vera Noest

> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Terminal Server 2003 & IE7 - AutoComplete fails to store data.

 

OK, I guess that that would have been too easy... :-)

 

The microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup has

numerous AutoComplete posts. I've noticed that you have already

posted there and been advised to ask here, but I feel that that is

really the place to ask, because the issue also arises on single

PCs.

 

I've done some searching there, and most posts recommend using a

utility found here:

 

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html

 

I haven't tried it myself, but the information on the site might be

enough to help you solve the problem. It documents that the

location used to store these AutoComplete passwords has changed in

IE7.

 

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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=?Utf-8?B?TWVnYXJhdmU=?= <Megarave@discussions.microsoft.com>

wrote on 25 jul 2007 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Vera,

>

> there is not such setting configured. To be more precise; the

> setting is "Not Configured" in any of the GPO's that apply

> within this environment.

>

> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

>

>> Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:

>>

>> User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User

>> profiles

>> "Exclude directories in roaming profile"

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Terminal Server 2003 & IE7 - AutoComplete fails to store data.

 

I've just downloaded and run the utility on my XP client.

I'm amazed and scared (maybe naively so) by what I found!

It took several minutes to complete a search to find all my stored

passwords, and there where *many* which I wasn't even aware that

they were stored (including sites where I am sure that I never

opted to save the password, as well as passwords saved in other

applications, like a non-Microsoft FTP client, FrontPage and what

not). All in cleartext!

 

That was the scary part. Now the good part: I had a problem myself

where I had answered IE's prompt to save my password for a

particular site to "No, don't save", and later on, I regretted

that, but wasn't able to get the prompt back, even after deleting

history, cookies, temporary IE files, reconfiguring AutoComplete

options, etc.

 

With this utility, I could see an entry for the site, with my

username, but no password. I deleted the entry, and voila: next

time I went to the site, I was given the choice if I wanted to save

my password again!

 

I'm not sure that all this is going to help you, but you will at

least be able to figure out where exactly the password is stored.

 

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Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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"Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@remove-this.hem.utfors.se> wrote on

25 jul 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> OK, I guess that that would have been too easy... :-)

>

> The microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general newsgroup has

> numerous AutoComplete posts. I've noticed that you have already

> posted there and been advised to ask here, but I feel that that

> is really the place to ask, because the issue also arises on

> single PCs.

>

> I've done some searching there, and most posts recommend using a

> utility found here:

>

> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/internet_explorer_password.html

>

> I haven't tried it myself, but the information on the site might

> be enough to help you solve the problem. It documents that the

> location used to store these AutoComplete passwords has changed

> in IE7.

>

> _________________________________________________________

> Vera Noest

> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___

>

> =?Utf-8?B?TWVnYXJhdmU=?= <Megarave@discussions.microsoft.com>

> wrote on 25 jul 2007 in

> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>

>> Vera,

>>

>> there is not such setting configured. To be more precise; the

>> setting is "Not Configured" in any of the GPO's that apply

>> within this environment.

>>

>> "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

>>

>>> Have you checked if there is a GPO with this setting enabled:

>>>

>>> User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - User

>>> profiles

>>> "Exclude directories in roaming profile"