martes, 10 de abril de 2018

Install windows fonts on a remote computer

Hello everyone,

Some weeks ago we're requested for installing the new corporative font.

We thought it would be quite easy. We just needed to copy it on the folder %SystemRoot%\fonts via a script but we're wrong.

It seems when you copy them via windows explorer an extra proccess is executed for installing the new fonts on the backgroud but it isn't when you copy them from a different computer using the xcopy command  or similar.

We tried a couple of aproaches and finally we deploy the new fonts using the following script.

An standard output may be the following,



Culex.