[BUG] Windows 10 default user profile oddity - Free folders for everyone

Remember my post from July 2017 about how the default user profile under Windows 10 was writeable by any user (no admin rights required) if you had 1607 installed at any point in time?

 

Well, here we are again with a new oddity.

 

[Powershell] Installing fonts - the hard way

This post is more of a guide than me finding weird bugs and the documention of my adventures trying to figure out what is actually going on. But even then I came across something new that kind of tripped me up.


A number of departments in the company I work for use various special fonts, which are part of the "Corporate Identity". Whenever a machine in one of those departments gets replaced we needed to install these special fonts on the new machine. And since we have been replacing a couple hundred machines over the last half year and will continue to replace a couple hundred machines every year on a regular basis from now on I decided to take a look at how to automate the deployment of fonts.

As I have mentioned in previous posts we are using Microsoft's SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) for Windows/Office update and general software deployment. So the tool of choice for the task was of course that. All I needed now was a script that could properly install the fonts and hand that script over to the guy in charge of the SCCM server so he could deploy it to the machines in question.