{"id":58,"date":"2015-08-08T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-10-31T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T22:41:43","slug":"installing-fonts-on-windows-using-puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/2015\/08\/08\/installing-fonts-on-windows-using-puppet\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing fonts on Windows using Puppet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently tasked to install a group of fonts on windows systems. In order to do it the Internet way, you have to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install the font on a system<\/li>\n<li>Export the registry file<\/li>\n<li>Create a GPO<\/li>\n<li>Place the font in an accessible location (domain readable)<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the GPO has the .reg and the font file installing<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the machine 2-3 times<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some have also suggested to install fonts via a packaged .msi &#8211; Something I also tried which did not work. Since my machines already have puppet installed, I went that route.<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"prettyprint lang-bsh\">mkdir fonts\/files\/ #where the FontReg file resides\r\nmkdir fonts\/files\/fonts #where the fonts reside\r\nmkdir fonts\/manifests\/ #where the below init.pp file resides\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Contents of init.pp are below:<\/p>\n<pre><code class=\"prettyprint lang-ruby\">\r\nclass fonts {\r\n\r\ncase $operatingsystem {\r\n\twindows: {\r\n\t\t\texec { 'FontReg':\r\n\t\t\t\tcommand\t\t=&gt; 'C:\\Windows\\FontReg.exe',\r\n\t\t\t\tpath\t\t=&gt; $::path,\r\n\t\t\t\trefreshonly\t=&gt; true,\r\n\t\t\t\trequire\t\t=&gt; File['C:\\Windows\\FontReg.exe'],\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\texec { 'FixFonts':\r\n\t\t\t\tcommand \t=&gt; 'cmd.exe \/c C:\\Windows\\font_ownership.bat',\r\n\t\t\t\tpath\t\t=&gt; $::path,\r\n\t\t\t\trefreshonly\t=&gt; true,\r\n\t\t\t\trequire\t\t=&gt; File['C:\\Windows\\font_ownership.bat'],\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\tfile { 'C:\\Windows\\font_ownership.bat':\r\n\t\t\t\tensure\t\t\t=&gt; present,\r\n\t\t\t\tnotify \t\t\t=&gt; Exec[\"FixFonts\"],\r\n\t\t\t\tsource_permissions\t=&gt; ignore,\r\n\t\t\t\tcontent\t\t\t=&gt; \"attrib -r -s c:\\Windows\\Fonts\r\ntakeown \/f c:\\Windows\\Fonts \/r \/d n\r\ncacls c:\\Windows\\Fonts \/e \/t \/g users:c\r\ncacls c:\\Windows\\System32\\FNTCACHE.DAT \/e \/t \/g users:c\",\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\tfile {\t'C:\\Windows\\FontReg.exe':\r\n\t\t\t\tsource \t\t\t=&gt; $architecture ? {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"x86\" \t=&gt; \"puppet:\/\/\/modules\/fonts\/FontReg32.exe\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\"x64\" \t=&gt; \"puppet:\/\/\/modules\/fonts\/FontReg64.exe\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdefault =&gt; \"unsupported architecture\"\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tsource_permissions\t=&gt; ignore,\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t$fonts = [\"font-name1.otf\",\"fontname2.ttf\"];\r\n\t\t\t$fonts.each |$font| {\r\n\t\t\t\tfile {\"C:\\\\Windows\\\\Fonts\\\\${font}\":\r\n\t\t\t\tsource  \t\t=&gt; \"puppet:\/\/\/modules\/fonts\/fonts\/${font}\",\r\n\t\t\t\tensure\t\t\t=&gt; present,\r\n\t\t\t\tnotify \t\t\t=&gt; Exec[\"FontReg\"],\r\n\t\t\t\trequire\t\t\t=&gt; [File['C:\\Windows\\FontReg.exe'],File['C:\\Windows\\font_ownership.bat'],],\r\n\t\t\t\tsource_permissions\t=&gt; ignore\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t}\r\n\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>Required programs:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>FontReg &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/code.kliu.org\/misc\/fontreg\/\">http:\/\/code.kliu.org\/misc\/fontreg\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Puppet Future Parser (3.7.5+)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Known Limitations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>In order to actually place the files on UAC systems, you have to take ownership of the font folder. This is done in the puppet script.<\/li>\n<li>I am using an iterator because there are some fonts that are installed on your system which prevent overwriting (even after you forcibly take ownership of the folder). ADP.ttf &#8230; I am looking at you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently tasked to install a group of fonts on windows systems. In order to do it the Internet way, you have to: Install the font on a system Export the registry file Create a GPO Place the font in an accessible location (domain readable) Make sure the GPO has the .reg and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[27,26,28],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}