Can I import a configured provider?

Your environment

TbSync version: 2.22 Thunderbird version: 78.11.0

My usage case is with the Google-4-TbSync extension, to hook into my company’s Google Workspace. I’d like to pre-configure and deploy a provider to all users, as we’re all on the same Workspace.

I see that there’s an <TB Profile>\TbSync\accounts68.json that contains all of the necessary information - API key and secrets. If I were to package this file and deploy it to all profiles (with the extension), would that be sufficient to configure the provider?

Is that file randomly or dynamically named?

[jobisoft]

I tested the policies.json approach in TB91 and it worked. That is much better!

I copied the example extension from the Firefox repository to our own and added a usage description with the new approach. https://github.com/thundernest/sample-extensions/tree/master/managedStorage

Being able to do this with the standard enterprise policies will make it much more simple to be used. You can either use the distributions directory or the Windows Group Policies to deploy the json file. Perfect.

I will update our policies repository shortly. There is already some work ongoing: https://github.com/thundernest/policy-templates/pull/1

I will ping our enterprise manager on this again.

[jobisoft]

We also have https://enterprise.thunderbird.net/ where the managed storage should be listed. I will poke a few people. I will definitely try this and give a step-by-step instructions on how to use it.

For general discussions, we have a couple of mailing lists: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com