Unattended font installation

Windows logoWhen creating an unattended installation, I found out the hard way,that simply copying the fonts to C:\Windows\Fonts is not enough. I managed to find a small util that initializes the fonts after you copy them.
This small gem is called fontinst.exe. Find it trough your best friend Google!
After that the steps are simple:
Copy the fonts to C:\Windows\Fonts
Create a file called fontinst.inf containing the font names like this:
[fonts]
font1.TTF
times.TTF
font2.ttf
The last step then is to initialize the fonts with the command:
fontinst.exe /f fontinst.inf

Tags: Unattend, Automatic, Font, Installation, Terminal Server

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