[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dubsdj:
.bat that I made that allows roaming users to experience obly tile on a large network

I have finally managed to use this wonderful tile program to make custom tiles that roaming users can see on their desktops which ever pc they log into and even if they haven't logged in there before.

I have set this script to run on user log off, it does mean however they won't see the tiles on their first login but I prefer to do as many things on user log off to save slowness when logging in.

Things to remember:

Wherever this is being run from, any user must be able to have read access to that location

Time out values seem to be important otherwise the tiles fail

If it goes pear shaped on a particular computer for a certain user simply remove their local profile (Via system properties / profiles) after backing it up ofcourse (if need be) Then remove the

c:\Tiles\Tilepack1\%username% folder so that the script is able to try again for that particular user.

NEVER USE DELPROF2 or you will corrupt the profiles and also the tiles on the local machine..

[MENTION=279333]ECHO[/MENTION] off

REM THIS IS TILE PACK 1 FOR WINDOWS 8

REM THERE ARE TIMEOUT VALUES BECAUSE EACH TILE NEEDS A FEW SECONDS TO INSTALL BEFORE THE NEXT COMMAND CAN BE RUN...FOR SOME REASON....

REM	DJB 2013

if exist c:\Tiles\Tilepack1\%username% (goto end)

md c:\Tiles\Tilepack1\%username%

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (64 Bit)\photoshop.exe" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\cs5.png" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\cs5.png" #2D8AEF #FFFFFF show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5\Dreamweaver.exe" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\dw.png" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\dw.png" #2D8AEF #FFFFFF show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "http://SharePoint" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\sharepoint.png" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\sharepoint.png" #2D8AEF #FFFFFF show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "https://mail.mydomain.com/owa" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\Email.jpg" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\Email.jpg" #2D8AEF #FFFFFF show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "n:" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\docs.jpg" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\docs.jpg" #2D8AEF #000000 show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "https://citrix.mydomain.com" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\citrix.jpg" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\citrix.jpg" #2D8AEF #000000 show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "https://someotherlink.com" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\is.png" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\is.png" #2D8AEF #000000 show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\vlc.jpg" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\vlc.jpg" #2D8AEF #000000 show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\winword.exe" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\word.png" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\word.png" #2D8AEF #000000 show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

start \\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Ob.exe " " "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\excel.exe" "" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\excel.png" "\\mydomain.local\NETLOGON\Windows_8_Scripts\Obly_Images\excel.png" #2D8AEF #000000 show normal no no no

TIMEOUT /T 4

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exit

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Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are better ways to do this.. But most importantly it works,and it allows users on a corporate network to actually make use of the tiles instead of just clicking on the desktop.

if anybody has a better way please share as I would love to make it more streamlined.

Thanks again for a wonderful oblytile program... it's brilliant and I hope you can work on it again some time and make even more changes to it.