Deploying standard preferences
If necessary, you can deploy a standard set of preferences for all existing Web Access users with a bit of work. This might be useful for important options that the users can configure themselves, such as:
- Enable Meridian Web Client: To limit demand for licenses
- Enable viewing the vault at a baseline or a specific date or time: To discourage viewing history and obsolete revisions
- Current time zone: To ensure correct time values
The preferences that users set for Web Access are stored in profile files on the Meridian web server. By default, the profile files are stored in C:\inetpub\AMM\Profiles. The name of each profile file looks similar to S-1-5-21-1753209238-1745623247-3704251221-1004.prf. Therefore, it is almost impossible to determine the profile file for a specific user.
To deploy standard preference options:
- Identify the user’s profile file that you want to use as a template, such as your own. Which user you choose is not important except that the preferences for that user will become the preferences of all other users to which you copy the template.
- Set one of the Preferences options to an unlikely value, such as setting Current time zone to a time zone that you know no users will select.
- Search the Profiles folder for files containing the name of the time zone that you set. The file that is found is the profile file for that user.
- In Web Access, set all the preferences to meet your requirements as described in the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise User’s Guide and log off from Web Access.
- Open the user’s profile file in any text editor.
- Copy the settings to the Clipboard that you want to deploy to the other users.
- Modify each of the other profile files:
- Open the profile file in any text editor.
- Paste the Clipboard settings over the existing settings.
- Ensure that none of the settings is duplicated within the same profile file.
- Save and close the file.
The changes will take effect in the users’ next Web Access session. The users can still override the settings, but the standard settings will help. This technique only works for existing Web Access users who have an existing profile file; it will not affect new users. You must repeat this task to deploy the preferences to the new users.