[THIN] Re: Office SP3 breaks TIF and MDI extensions

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 c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c assoc .mdi=mdi_auto_file & psexec \\%i 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 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
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Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division

 

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Angela Smith <angela_smith9@hotmail.com> 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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