How to standardise the fonts in office 2007 via group policy

It's on the template file.  With Word, it's gonna be Normal.dotm while outlook will have NormalEmail.dotm (I think).  Both file locate under user profile in the local drive.  I use start up script to copy it to that location.  

I scratch my head to find a better solution but no luck.

enz

Thanks enzogoy, could you post the script you use for me please?

Thanks!

Here is how to create your template.  You have to create this two files first (Normal.dotm and NormalEmail.dotm), put them on the network location and then put the command into your login script (I assume you used batch file).
http://blogs.msdn.com/templates/archive/2008/04/08/creating-and-sharing-word-2007-templates.aspx

Put the following line in your batch file.
Use this if your users are using Microsoft templates at the moment and you want your new template to overwrite it.  
copy "\\Network location\folder\Normal.dotm" "%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\"

If your users already have their own template and you don't want to overwrite it then:
xcopy "\\Network location\folder\Normal.dotm" "%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\" /d

*** the xcopy command will check if the file exist then it will do nothing, else it will copy the file over.

For outlook, you only change the file name in the script to NormalEmail.dotm.  
If you have a folder which only have these two template file then you can replace the file name in command with *.* .

for example:
copy "\\Network location\folder\*.*" "%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\"

Hi,  thanks for this.

We use VB script but i think i can knock something up to do this.

Please let me know if you in trouble with VB script.

enz

I'm currently setting up one bit at a time in a test script

This is what I currently have in the login script.
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'Copy Word 2007 Normal Template to the Local Hard Disk
Dim FSO
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
FSO.CopyFile "\\"SERVERNAME"\NETLOGON\Normal.dotm", "C:\Documents and Settings\"USERNAME"\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\"

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With server name and user name replaced with the right words.  Now that script above works but obviously this is no good for serperate users as "USERNAME" is not a vaiable.  i have tried using "%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\" but i get a 800A004C error on the VBscript saying cannot find path.

Can you help?

Can anyone help with my post above???

Could you please try this one:

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'Copy Word 2007 Normal Template to the Local Hard Disk
Dim FSO, strDirectory, strUserProfile, objFolder
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )
strUserProfile = oshell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%userprofile%")
strDirectory = strUserProfile & "\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\"
If FSO.FolderExists(strDirectory) Then
  FSO.CopyFile "\\SERVERNAME\NETLOGON\Normal.dotm", strUserProfile & "\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\"
Else
  Set objFolder = FSO.createFolder(strDirectory)
  FSO.CopyFile "\\SERVERNAME\NETLOGON\Normal.dotm", strUserProfile & "\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\"
End if
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Replace your SERVERNAME to the real server name, everything else keep the same.

enz