A leap of faith

For the next three and a half months, I will be working on integrating Active Directory into Firefox. This may come as a shock (or not), but after working on Linux for anything remotely productive in the past 3 years, my Windows knowledge could use a fair bit of upgrading.

Why is Active Directory special?
It isn't useful for the general public, but rather for Enterprise administrators who want to control the preferences of the browser. For example, let's say you want to have a default homepage for Firefox. How can you do this without going to each machine and setting the preference? Without re-imaging (Seneca's solution)?

Setting homepage for IE7 (don't ask why it says IE6)

Well, you can do it Firefox, sorta. You need to download an extension, at the very least. I haven't actually tried it. I may be wrong. And it is probably more complicated than that.

The solution seems to be Active Directory and Group Policies. Or it seems to be anyways. The concept is still new to me, but this is the next few months of work. It is not only required piecing this stuff together (and maybe some upgrading), but also working at it until it gets to the tree. I will hopefully understand Andrew's pain.

My first release will be learning about GPO, and starting to take apart extensions like CCK and FirefoxADM. I will have some documentation, definitely up on the wiki