Configure file type associations 编辑

Configuring file type associations (FTA) used to be an easy task. As an administrator, you could achieve that by using scripts. However, a hash was introduced for FTA validation starting with Windows 8, making FTA configuration a pain for administrators.

You can use Workspace Environment Management (WEM) to customize FTA for a specific user or user group. For example, you can associate URL types (HTTP and HTTPS) and file types (*.htm and *.html) with Google Chrome, making it the default browser.

The configuration process includes the following steps:

1. Create FTA actions

2. Assign FTA actions to the target user or user group

Prerequisites

Before you start, do the following:

• Make sure that the agent machines have Google Chrome installed.

• Get ProgID for Google Chrome.

  The ProgID for Google Chrome is ChromeHTML. To discover the ProgID of an installed application, use the OLE/COM Object Viewer (oleview.exe) and look for it in Object Classes/Ole 1.0 Objects. For more information about ProgID, see Programmatic identifier (ProgID).

Create FTA actions

1. Go to Legacy Console > Advanced Settings > Configuration > Main Configuration and enable Process File Associations.

   

2. Go to Legacy Console > Actions > File Associations > File Association List and click Add.

3. In the New File Association window, type the information as follows and then click OK.

   

   Note:

   In this example, the correct ProgID ChromeHTML is provided, so there is no need to fill out the following three fields: Action, Target application, and Command. However, if you can’t provide the ProgID for an installed application or the installed application doesn’t register a ProgID during installation, you must fill out the three fields. For more information, see File Associations.

Assign FTA actions to the target group

1. Go to Legacy Console > Assignments > Action Assignment and then double-click the user or user group to which you want to assign the action.

2. Go to Legacy Console > Administration > Agents > Statistics and then click Refresh.

3. Right-click the agent and then select Refresh Workspace Agent(s) in the context menu.

For more information about FTA configuration in WEM, see File Associations.