Re: File association - file types and user Profiles

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Thanks a lot.
Does it mean that I can not put file association in the mandatory profile? It will be better that do this via login script.

MArcusB

Jon Wallace wrote:
Hi Marcus,

Within Windows you can have per-user file associations. Basically you have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Classes and HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software Classes. If you want to create per-user file associations you basically write them to HKEY_CURRENT_USER...

See http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2004/04/20/creating-custom-file-associations-to-support-side-by-side-applications.aspx


Now - one thing you will struggle with is the fact that you are using a mandatory profile - you will therefore have to do this at login time using a login script. You can use various languages to do this, VBScript, Kix etc... or look at commercial tools such as AppSense, TriCeral or ScriptLogic.

When you first go down this route it appears quite complicated at first, I assure you it's not - it just takes you a little time toget your head around associations and extensions.

Have a look at that article, hopefully it will help.

Regards,
Jon

www.insidetheregistry.com

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"MarcusB" <marcusb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eWDdyFcwJHA.1088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How can I do that different users groups will have different applicatation associations.

We would like that users belonging to BICKY\techadmin will have files .bli associated with wiskie.exe

and that users belonging to BICKY\tech will have files .bli associated with wiskie48.exe

We are using mandatory profiles and all users do not have admin rights thus they can not change associotions self. Does association are saved in profile?


MarcusB

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