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If you would like to build an installer to install a custom font on a machine, then you can use Visual Studio to do this.
Instructions
All you have to do is to follow these simple instructions:
Open Visual Studio and start a new installer project. Then carry out the following steps:
Right-click on the File System on Target Machine, Add Special Folder > Fonts Folder:
Once you have created the Fonts folder then place your font file there:
This will ensure that the installer places the font file into the Fonts folder within Windows, however, you need to also register the font.
To register the font, you have to go to the Properties for each font file and change Register from vsdrfDoNoRegister to vsdrfFont:
When you have made these changes, you can then generate the installer and test. You should then find that the font is successfully installed.
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thanks man it work fine.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0e86f4ac-cc49-4d6f-af89-4c1fb78dc8bc/font-installation-through-sccm-?forum=configmanagerapps
Glad it helped you out.
thanks man it work fine.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0e86f4ac-cc49-4d6f-af89-4c1fb78dc8bc/font-installation-through-sccm-?forum=configmanagerapps
Glad it helped you out.
Thanks big time AJ. Heads up for other SA’s trying to push out MSI’s (for fonts, etc.) via Intune…these instructions for the MSI work fabulously. Some extra information for newbies:
Once you download Visual Studios 2017 (Community version is fine), you have to make sure you have the installer extension installed to be able to create an installer project. (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44286704/create-setup-msi-installer-in-visual-studio-2017)
Also, the system I did this on did not have the fonts installed yet, so I did not have to do the extra step of changing the Register property for each font.
When you finish putting the fonts into the project, make sure you build the project and you can pull the .msi file from the build folder stated in the output at the bottom of the Visual Studio IDE.
As an FYI, if you want to deploy this MSI with Intune (using these instructions [I have no tie to the author]: https://www.anoopcnair.com/intune-beginners-guide-deploy-msi-application/), this MSI works perfectly with Intune. and /quiet command line arguments.
Thanks for the feedback, glad my post helped.