RE: Deploying Fonts on 100 Computers

Haroon,

If your users are not power users or Administrators on their machines, they
will not be able to write to the system folder. You can use Sanue.exe to
script this, or you might try running it as a machine script rather than a
user script to do the write under the machine account. I usually go with
Sanur as its easier - for security purposes, create a temp admin account, or
push an account to local admins using restricted groups.

Sanur:
http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur_unsupported/index2.html

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Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+
Chicago, IL

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"Haroon Malik" wrote:

HI Ryasn,

I have tried that but it doesnt work under a normal account. Even i gave
full permission to the Windows Folder to Everyone but still it doesnt work.

However if i add that user to the local power user group it works.

Please advice.
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Haroon Malik




"Ryan Hanisco" wrote:

Hello Haroon,

To install standard windows fonts, you need to get the .ttf or .fon files
into the Fonts directory . If your network is fast or the fonts don't take
up huge amounts of space, you may just want to create a logon script that
copies the files from a network share to the client ( %systemroot%\fonts ).

so
1. Move the fonts to a server share as \\server\Share
2. Set the permissions so Domain Users can read the share and NTFS
3. Change your logon script:
copy \\server\Share\*.* %systemroot%\fonts

You shoudl be golden. THe only gotcha might be if your user security policy
doesn't allow users to write to the fonts directory. If that's the case you
can either log on to them manually or use a tool like SANUR to script the
RUNAS command.

Good luck.

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Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+
Chicago, IL

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"Haroon Malik" wrote:

Dear All,

I have about 100 XP computers in my Windows 2003 domain. I want to deploy
our company standard font on all of these computers. We dont have an SMS
solution. Can someone help on this on how to do it through AD or a script. Or
if someone can help where i can get a free MSI creator.
--
Haroon Malik

Systems Engineer

.

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