It's possible to export a set of associations and then assign the entire set via GPO.
But no, currently there are no PS cmdlets for managing these items. It's easy to wrap assoc.exe and ftype.exe with PS. Get over it. :) From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] PowerShell cmdlet Yes, I found that out, cheers. I really hate using those commands - it feels so unnecessarily complex. I was just wondering if there was a native PowerShell way so I could use AppSense, but at the moment the far and away easiest method looks to be Group Policy Preferences. On 1 April 2014 20:36, Kuhlman, Donald <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Don't know if this helps (in a round about way) - but can you do it using the assoc and ftype commands via Powershell and cmd /c syntax ? [PS] 2014-04-01 14:30:19> cmd /c assoc .doc .doc=Word.Document.8 [PS] 2014-04-01 14:34:09> cmd /c ftype word.document.8 word.document.8="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15\WINWORD.EXE" /n "%1" /o "%u" Webpage example - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff687021.aspx Don K From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 2:16 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] PowerShell cmdlet Is there a PowerShell cmdlet that controls file type associations? I'm thinking not, but just checking in case I've missed something.... -- James Rankin --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk -- James Rankin --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
