[THIN] Re: Office SP3 breaks TIF and MDI extensions
- From: Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:35:27 +1000
Hi Angela,
There are 2 system commands that let you list and change server file
associations. These are:
*assoc* - associate file extension with file type
Example: *C:\assoc .mdi
.mdi=mdi_auto_file*
*ftype* - associate a file type to an executable
Example: *C:\ftype mdi_auto_file
mdi_auto_file=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OIS.EXE /shellOpen
"%1"
*
In this example I've got Office 2007 installed.
So if you wanted to fix the mdi file association, you'd run:
*assoc .mdi=mdi_auto_file*
*ftype mdi_auto_file=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OIS.EXE /shellOpen "%1"
*
The last command could also be:
*ftype mdi_auto_file="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OIS.EXE"
/shellOpen "%1"
*
Doing this on a whole farm isn't too hard if you download the PSTools
utilities http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx
Copy psexec.exe to c:\windows and try something like this (it's one line):
For /f "skip=3" %i in ('qfarm /load') do psexec \\%i
<file://%25i/>c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c assoc .mdi=mdi_auto_file
& psexec
\\%i <file://%25i/> c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c ftype
mdi_auto_file=C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\OIS.EXE /shellOpen "%1"
qfarm /load generates a list of on-line servers in your farm. If we read
this list in a FOR look that skips the first 3 lines which are a title,
header etc then we have the names of all the online servers in your farm.
psexec \\servername <file://servername/> command will execute the command on
the remote server. An & allows us to run two commands using the same
variables on the same command line. If you want to turn this command into a
batch file, remember to replace all the %i with %%i, but don't replace the
%1 with a %%1.
regards,
Rick
--
Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have deployed Office 2003 SP3 to our dev environment expecting it to
> break certain file associations based on article
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938813. I can re-associate TIF by
> manually launching MS Office document Imaging on each Citrix Server and
> reassociating the extension via Tools/Options. However it doesn't fix the
> MDI associations.
>
> Is there an easy way to re-associate MDI to MS Office document Imaging for
> all users? A script that sets both would be great if one exists...
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ang
>
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