Once a standard autocad PROFILE has been distributed, what is the recommended...?

Once a standard autocad PROFILE has been distributed to each machine in
the office, what is the recommended
way to make a change in the Profile (settings stored in the registry) ?
Don't really want to visit each machine to make the change.

 

What we do is copy the changes we want out of a master profile, (.arg file),
leave this remnant as a master.reg file, and include the line:

regedit /s master.reg

in the users' Windows logon scripts, (batch file). This way, only the
updated info gets imported into the users' AutoCAD profiles. Note - this
assumes the users' AutoCAD profiles all have the same name as the profile
the master.reg was extracted from.

John.

 

If you can elaborate, what settings are you changing or controlling by using
the profile?

 

We standardize lots of thisng, such as isavepercent, maxsort, support paths,
etc. Below is just a short portion of our master.reg to give you an idea
what it looks like:
-----------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-8:409\Profiles\Land
Desktop\Dialogs\Appload\Startup]
"NumStartup"="1"
"1Startup"="\\\\0ds1\\DATA\\Cad\\Ctl\\Toolbox\\ReadOnlyCheck.dvb"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-8:409\Profiles\Land
Desktop\acadvba]
"AutoEmbedding"=dword:00000000
"AllowBreakOnErrors"=dword:00000001
"ShowSecurityDlg"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R15.0\ACAD-8:409\Profiles\Land
Desktop\Editor Configuration]
"EmergencyFont"="romans.shx"
"FontMappingFile"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Autodesk
Shared\\acad.fmp"
"LogFilePath"="c:\\land projects r2\\"
"PSOUT_PrologFileName"=""
"MainDictionary"="enu"
"CustomDictionary"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Autodesk
Shared\\sample.cus"
"MTextEditor"="Internal"
"XrefLoadPath"="C:\\Land Projects R2\\Temp"
"SaveFilePath"="C:\\Land Projects R2\\Temp"
"ACADLspAsDoc"=dword:00000001
"MaxSortEntries"=dword:00000190
"AutomaticSaveMinutes"=dword:00000014
"XrefLazyLoadMode"=dword:00000002
-----------------------------------
The advantage of doing it this way is that each user still has control over
most of their preferences, while we only import certain ones we want
standardized.

John

 

That is *exactly* what I do. Never messed with issuing/updating
individual profiles.

 

Great minds think alike! must have something to do with the first
name...

 

That must be it