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Defining Thunderbird default settings in Group Policies within Active Directory environments..

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Hi all..

A while back I was able to define a GPO that would disable automatic updates in our little pool of machines for our small office and it worked without issue (using the "DisableAppUpdate" key).. But now I'm trying to set some defaults for "mailnews.default_sort_order" and change the value from the default of 1 to a value of 2..

Anyway, I've tried a handful of methods after reading through this page on the topic.. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious and hoping that someone can enlighten me..

I've tried manually setting registry keys even on one of the machines and Thunderbird won't pickup the changes for whatever reason.

I'm setting values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Thunderbird

The only thing that works is the above mentioned DisableAppUpdate.

In the image below are some of my iterations through trying various things and none are working ATM (this is what I see on the target computer).. Can someone clue me in on what I'm doing wrong?

Hi all.. A while back I was able to define a GPO that would disable automatic updates in our little pool of machines for our small office and it worked without issue (using the "DisableAppUpdate" key).. But now I'm trying to set some defaults for "mailnews.default_sort_order" and change the value from the default of 1 to a value of 2.. Anyway, I've tried a handful of methods after reading through [https://github.com/thunderbird/policy-templates this page] on the topic.. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious and hoping that someone can enlighten me.. I've tried manually setting registry keys even on one of the machines and Thunderbird won't pickup the changes for whatever reason. I'm setting values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Thunderbird The only thing that works is the above mentioned DisableAppUpdate. In the image below are some of my iterations through trying various things and none are working ATM (this is what I see on the target computer).. Can someone clue me in on what I'm doing wrong?
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