Is there a way to configure/install Spark so that the users profile configuration is saved to a network drive?
I see that it is currently being saved to their local user profile on the c drive, but since we use VM’s…once they get refreshed…their setting are gone. This is what we want to avoid.
not that I know of. many (most?) programs are going to save some stuff to %APPDATA%. Perhaps you should investigate using a network location for the users home space. With AD, you can set the users home to be a network location, so that things like this can be saved on the network.
Spark is going to create a directory called “Spark” wherever the user’s %APPDATA% directory is. If this is till mapped to the C: drive, then it will put it there.
Open the run box as the user and type %APPDATA% and click “OK”… see where it takes you. My guess is it still is mapped to the local C drive as you noted.
I would just make sure you are aware, re-mapping %APPDATA% will make all programs use this new mapping, potentially a lot of data being sent over the network, etc. I don’t think windows supports symbolic links still (limitation of the very old NTFS), so just re-mapping only the Spark %APPDATA% directory is not an option