I'm trying to write a script that will open all .TIF and .TIFF with Microsoft Office Document Imaging. We are running Server 2003, so we don't have the luxury of using GPO or side extensions. We just deployed Office 2010 to over 300 machines. In doing this, the new office tools were installed and broke the assoiation link for .TIF's and .TIFF's. I plan to use group policy to fix this once I find out how to properly script it. I've tried using:
ASSOC .tif=TIFImage.Document
ASSOC .tiff=TIFImage.Document
FTYPE TIFImage.Document="c:\program files\microsoft offoce\office12\OIS.EXE" %1 %*
This did nothing. I have also tried exporting every registry value using the find tool for .TIF & .TIFF after right clicking on a .TIF file and changing the "Open with" Microsoft Office Picture Manager, then reimporting those registry values into a machine. This also does not work. There are several other methods using the "reg add" and regedit commands, but did nothing as well. The only way this seems to work is manually going to each machine and right click a .TIF or .TIFF and change the "Open with" option. There HAS to be a way to script this! Please help. I've been working on this all day and part of the night now.