deploy a new font to all computers help

[northeast_technician]

hello, is there an easy way to deploy a font and install it on every computer on the network?

[Rob_D]

I use this in remote MDT, and I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work in a logon/startup script. Just remember to change the "\\myserver\SDP$" to your deployment share and "My-font.otf" to the name of your fonts.

 

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace("\\myserver\SDP$")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("My-font.otf")
objFolderItem.InvokeVerb("Install")

 

Hope this helps.

[northeast_technician]

silly question but it shouldnt matter if its a ttf font file should it? and whats the best format to save the script as ? .vbs?

[Oaktech]

I took a more laborious approach... I was asked for the Open Dyslexic fonts to be made available.

 

I installed all the fonts on my machine and made a note of all the registry entries that were created... HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts

 

I used GPO and computer config >Windows settings > Files > to copy the font files from a network location into %WINDIR%\Fonts and then used computer config > windows settings > registry to create the appropriate registry values.

[Rob_D]

I've used it with TTF fonts fine as well. And yeah, save it as a .vbs.

[DanHamilton]

Follow this tutorial to deploy font files via GP: Deploy Font Files via a GP (Group Policy) | The-IT-Blog