Question:
How are AI3 jobs distributed for all users on terminal servers?
Within a terminal server environment, each user has to be allocated one or more standardized jobs for ACTIVE IMPORT 3. However, since these settings are saved in relation to each user, this presents quite a challenge. Here there are two options that can be used to distribute the registry keys:
Answer 1:
- Set up the jobs for your users as normal using ACTIVE IMPORT 3 and select the settings you want.
- The jobs are saved in the registry in relation to each user under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DOCUWARE\DocuWare\ActiveImport. Select the ActiveImport key and export this to a temporary directory of your choice to which all users have sufficient authorized access.
- Open the Usrlogon.cmd file in the Windows System32 directory and insert this line:
Start regedit.exe /s c:\ai3.reg <= Path to be modified - This key is then automatically created for every user that logs on to the terminal server.
Answer 2:
This method only works for users that have not yet logged on to the system, i.e. their key has not yet been created. If the user has worked with DocuWare before, they can delete their DOCUWARE key under CURRENT_USER and then restart DocuWare. In this case the new keys are loaded at the same time.
- Set up the jobs for your users as normal using ACTIVE IMPORT 3 and select the settings you want.
- The jobs are saved in the registry in relation to each user under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DOCUWARE\DocuWare\ActiveImport. Select the ActiveImport key and export this to a temporary directory.
- Go to the temporary directory and open the exported file in an editor program. The file should then look like the screenshot below:
- Modify the path for all registry keys from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DOCUWARE\.....
to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\DOCUWARE\
For example, the [HKEY_CURRENT\USER\Software\DOCUWARE\DocuWare\ActiveImport] key becomes
the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\DOCUWARE\DocuWare\ActiveImport] key
Modify all the keys present in the file as described above. You can also use the editor's Replace function to accelerate this process. Save the changes and close the file. - Then double-click on the file and confirm both prompts. A new key is now created. Next time the users log on to Windows this information is automatically read out from the key in LOCAL_MACHINE and added.