Our web programmers have programmed a beautiful page that works with none of the links on our 20,000 workstations.
I’m trying to replace the innards of the url with correct value and this is how far I have gotten.
See if the files exists first
Q: exists file (“C:\Documents and Settings” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\Links\District Links\Orbit.url”)
A: True
Return the value of the url currently
Q: following texts of firsts “URL=” of lines whose (it as lowercase starts with “url=”) of file “orbit.url” of folder (“C:\Documents and Settings” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\Links\District Links”)
I’d like to be able to check to see the file exists and if it is currently wrong then change it out to the correct version. Just wondering if I replace the whole file if it exists or try to change the contents.
It’s only been about a half hour since discovered so so far so good. Just wondering how to smash the two together inside of a exists file whose kind of statement.
Isn’t it funny that this kind of work that is not of your doing is always an emergency.
Here’s the content of the dos edited file as I’m staring at it.
DEFAULT
BASEURL=https://its.epsb.ca/orbit/login.cfm
InternetShorcut
URL=https://its.epsb.ca/orbit/login.cfm
Modified=8048and a bunch other numbers
Looks like I got the Relevance
Here’s my relevance that I’m returning via qna
Q: exists file (“C:\Documents and Settings” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\Links\District Links\Orbit.url”) whose (exists lines whose (it as lowercase contains “https://its.epsb.ca/orbit/login.cfm”)of it )
I have to ask an obligatory question-- are these computers in AD? If there are, it would be much easier to do this with group policy. That being said, my company has thousands of machines that are not part of our AD structure. We use the IE auto-configuration script with good results and that might be an option to examine.
I haven’t taken the closest look at what you wrote, but I can tell you that you right away that you are going to run into issues with profile folders that are not the same as the user name. This occurs when you change a user name after the profile has been created, or a profile becomes corrupt and a second one is created with .001 after the name, or if there is a local account and domain account of the same name, so you end up with C:\Documents & Settings\username.domain\ as the folder. Anyway, this is more than a rare occurrence and you need to compensate for it.
This code will help, but it is ugly:
value of variable "SystemDrive" of environment & ((following text of first "e%25" of it)of (preceding text of last "%00" of it) of (value "ProfileImagePath" of key ("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\" & (component string of sid of local user "administrator")) of registry as string))
Got it… Thanks for the info Brian as it will be very useful. This was just a quick brute force update to temporarily fix a problem.
I’ll have to give it a good going over at a later date for a solution that is more elegant.
Action Script
Script Type BigFix Action Script
// store the file location – store the file location or (“C:\Documents and Settings” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\Links\District Links\Orbit.url”)
parameter “filename” = “{pathname of file (“C:\Documents and Settings” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\Links\District Links\Orbit.url” ) }”
// iterate through the file replacing lines as necessary
appendfile {concatenation “%0d%0a” of ( if (it contains (parameter “textToReplace”)) then ((preceding text of first (parameter “textToReplace”) of it) & (parameter “newText”) & (following text of first (parameter “textToReplace”) of it) ) else it ) of lines of file (parameter “filename”)}
I too have a busted URL - One of the ports on the link changed and I’m trying to change it on All User’s favorites - I believe I have parameter “filename” incorrect - sorry new to Big Fix assistance needed Here is my action script below:
// store the file location – store the file location or (“C:\Users” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\SAP\SAP BW Reports.url”)
parameter “filename” = “{pathname of file (“C:\Users” & (name of current user) & “\Favorites\SAP\SAP BW Reports.url” ) }”
// iterate through the file replacing lines as necessary
appendfile {concatenation “%0d%0a” of ( if (it contains (parameter “textToReplace”)) then ((preceding text of first (parameter “textToReplace”) of it) & (parameter “newText”) & (following text of first (parameter “textToReplace”) of it) ) else it ) of lines of file (parameter “filename”)}
// backup the old file
// move “{parameter “filename”}” "{parameter “filename”}.bak"
delete “{parameter “filename”}”
// replace with the new file
move __appendfile “{parameter “filename”}”