(I can hear Microsoft protesting as we speak, you want to do what?)īut the main clincher is – it used to be so straightforward to enable this, either as an enforced policy, or a pre-defined preference that user could change and expect to persist. Picture files, video files, etc there are a huge amount of file formats that this could apply to.Īnd finally, you may want to simply set a specific default FTA for an application, but also then give the users the option to change this to a different application they prefer, and then persist that setting from session to session (potentially across different devices), a particular consideration in XenApp or RDSH environments. Maybe they might want to open text files in Notepad or Notepad++ dependent on function. Some users may have to open Visio drawings in Visio Viewer and others using the full version. There are many other applications that you may want to define this way. Having to silo XenApp servers based around a file type association doesn’t make an awful lot of sense, so I know this is fairly common practice (provided the licensing from the vendor allows this form of control). There may well be licensing issues to take into account that mean you can’t let everyone use the full version, so you may want to enforce the PDF file type association differently for different groups of users. But some may want, for job reasons, to use something like Adobe Acrobat Pro. Some users want to use, for instance, Adobe Reader to open PDF files. Imagine you have a XenApp server hosting sessions for a multitude of users. Why deploy per-user file type associations? xml extension in Notepad instead of the default of IE), you can right-click on the file and choose Open With. If you wanted to open the file type in a different program (for instance, open a file with the.
Each user normally has a default FTA that is the program that will open it when you double-click a particular file type. txt extension commonly open in Notepad, but you can use many other things, WordPad, Notepad++, even Microsoft Excel. docx extension commonly open in Microsoft Word. We’re all familiar with FTAs – they are the program that opens a particular file type extension. Also, I’m going to remove the previous article in a couple of weeks, as I feel this one is more complete. However, once we’re down in the detail sections, there will be a lot more detail than before. Note – the background to this article has simply been lifted-and-shifted, for the most part, from the previous article referenced above. They’re a particular bugbear to those of us using XenApp 7.x or RDSH systems, because we’re used to doing them the old easy way, and now the rules have unceremoniously changed. I’ve had quite a lot of emails and questions as a result of my previous articles, so I think it’s ripe for a bit more clarification and a bit of a (second!) revamp. We’ve been down the file type associations route before.
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