I wanted a simple Group Policy to deploy fonts and found that the most straight forward way to deploy fonts via GPO was to build an.MSI and then deploy the.MSI. This sounds harder than it is: Building the.MSI for the Fonts 1 – Get the Registry Settings Manually Install the fonts in question on your own PC (because it. How to deploy fonts using Configuration Manager 2012 R2. Copy the script file and font to a shared folder. The font that I be deploying is Marlboro font which is available free for Download. Open the script file with notepad or any editor, set the font source path to the location where the font is located. Block untrusted fonts in an enterprise. Turn on and use the Blocking Untrusted Fonts feature. Use Group Policy or the registry to turn this feature on, off, or to. Group Policy Preferences. To delegate this task, we are going to use Group Policy Preferences: Scheduled Tasks. Create a new GPO named Install Fonts – then create a new preference. Change the Task user from your account to a dedicated service account.
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Step 1: Extracting Fonts. Download and extract all of the fonts into a network folder. Ideally, this should be a software distribution share that domain computers can read from. Most fonts come in a compressed package. After extracting, be sure to delete any picture samples or text documents. In your font folder, you only want the actually font file.
Learning has never been so easy!
Here's how to deploy new fonts via GPO.
In this tutorial, I'll be installing this font: Orkney Bold Italic.ttf
In this tutorial, I'll be installing this font: Orkney Bold Italic.ttf
Pre-requisite: New font. Place new font in a network share where everyone can access.
4 Steps total
Step 1: Create New GPO
In this example, I created a new GPO called Fonts Installation.
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Step 2: Copy files to Fonts folder
1. Edit 'Fonts Installation' GPO and navigate to: User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files
2. Create New File: Right click > New > File
3. In Source file(s), enter location of the file
4. In Destination File: C:WindowsFontsOrkney Bold Italic.tff
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5. Click OK
Step 3: Add Registry
1. Navigate to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry
2. Create New Registry Item with the following attributes:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFonts
Value Name: [name of the font] (TrueType)
e.g. Orkney Bold Italic (TrueType)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFonts
Value Name: [name of the font] (TrueType)
e.g. Orkney Bold Italic (TrueType)
Value type: REG_SZ
Value data: Orkney Bold Italic.ttf
Value data: Orkney Bold Italic.ttf
3. Click OK
Step 4: Assign GPO to OU
That concludes our new font deployment via GPO.
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Published: Aug 04, 2017 · Last Updated: Jun 21, 2019
18 Comments
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- Thai PepperA.J6930 Aug 4, 2017 at 05:54pmHelpful in future just in case need to use that.
Thanks - Serranoalexfisher Aug 4, 2017 at 07:34pmI have an ERP that relies on barcode fonts, so this will work great. Thank you!
- MaceMike400 Aug 4, 2017 at 07:45pmThis question gets asked about every six months. Well done.
- PoblanoLoganGH Aug 4, 2017 at 08:05pmI attempted to create a GPO for deploying fonts a while ago in my Windows 7 environment. Ultimately without the registry value this proved to be a failure, the fonts would get copied to the fonts folder but not installed on the local machine. I wound up having to build a package with PDQ deploy. As we don't have any licensing for PDQ, I wound up having to deploy the fonts over the course of a few weeks repeatedly, to hit the computers that rarely saw the network. This would have saved me hours. Thanks for sharing.
- JalapenoGovtCheeze Aug 4, 2017 at 08:06pmThis is really helpful. I have a couple of users that work in marketing who always need the latest, newest fonts
Thanks - ChipotleGuruGabe1 Aug 4, 2017 at 10:38pmVery helpful, this is a great way of doing it, unless you work for a school district. I had to do this, our kindergarten classes had to have about twenty fonts installed, our newspaper class had to have about thirty, and another class had to have about thirty fonts. That made for a ton of work in group policy. I really wish there was an easier way.
- DatilRoboOx Aug 6, 2017 at 12:27pmWe have around 300 additional fonts that needs to be installed everywhere (request by the Art department). We just created a msi package that installs them all at once. However, using the GPO files and registry preferences options seems a perfectly reasonable method to install a small number of fonts.
- Tabascobillphillips3 Aug 6, 2017 at 11:04pmI have a few folks who need a small group of certain fonts. I think this will work well for me.
- CayennePhill7895 Aug 7, 2017 at 08:56amThis doesn't always work for truetype fonts, but does for monotype, if it's ttf you're installing then I'd suggest sticking with the msi option as it triggers the font registration process.
- CayenneJohn Freeman Aug 7, 2017 at 03:19pmGreat guide, I actually have to do this next week so I'll be using this guide. Thanks!
- AnaheimDustin Bennett Cote Aug 8, 2017 at 02:49pmYou can also use PDQ Deploy free to deploy fonts as well, works really well for large groups of fonts. Requires reboot after deployment.https://www.pdq.com/blog/deploy-fonts-to-your-computers/
- TabascoRBO6036 Aug 8, 2017 at 03:04pmI looked at this and for sure this will come up at some point, well done!
- SerranoDwayne9111 Aug 14, 2017 at 01:33pmI used a program to create an MSI that contained the fonts, this seems cleanerhttp://www.advancedinstaller.com/user-guide/tutorial-convert-exe-to-msi.html
- JalapenoIdolR Mar 5, 2018 at 04:41pmNot working here. Fonts are copied but no registry entries
- PimientoSheepishKin Feb 5, 2019 at 11:23pmHi, thanks for the guide. Slight typo in Step 2.4 - you've put the file extension as .tff instead of .ttf
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