Deploying 7ZIP using GPO
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Hey folks!
I just tried to deploy 7ZIP using Windows GPO which works fine, but there is on question open: What can we do to activate the file associations so that the supportet archives are associated to 7zip?
the 2 ways I know how to do this is either set the correct file associations on a single machine and test that it works then export the registry key with those associations in it and import onto the other computers
"regedit /s exported.reg" (sorry cannot remember the registry keys, use regmon http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896652.aspx\)
or use a proper msi builder (A free one comes with Windows 2000), what you do with this is get a computer without 7-zip on it, you capture the state of the computer with the MSI builder program, you then install 7-zip and completely set it up, with all the associations, test it works, then you run the MSI builder again it will work out every file, all the registry keys that have been changed/added. From this it will create an MSI that will do all the work for you.