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    Creating INF files

    Hi All,

    I have a tricky one here.

    I am trying to create an Excel spread sheet that has all of the local group policy settings that windows 2008 can have, and I have created said list. What i would like to do now is take that list and turn it into an INF file. The inf file is basically just a text file.

    I imagine that a column in my spreadsheet would relate to a pre-defined lines of text in the INF file based on the content of the cell and that based on the value in a cell on the same line would write out the INF file. Then allowing us to change and re-export the file after we've made various changes.

    I know that there are various tools available to create policy inf files, but we have to create "Technical" standards for review before we can apply them. to do this they need to be in human readable form to be converted later....

    Please help, this is driving me crazy

    Thanks in advance
    Last edited by lebar; 07-21-2010 at 10:57 AM. Reason: Update the title

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    Re: Creating INF files - This is a hard one....

    It might be that this task needs to be completed in steps... not sure but I thought that I would through that out there?

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    Re: Creating INF files - This is a hard one....

    What have you got so far ?
    You need sections, keys and keyvalues to put in the INF file.

    So basically
    in column A: names of sections
    in column B: names of keys
    in Column C: values of keys

    no big deal combining these to an INF-file.

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    Re: Creating INF files - This is a hard one....

    Hi snb,

    I have a column with user readable text that I need to relate to a column in another spreadsheet with the text that needs to be outputed to the INF file, additionally I have a column with values that need to be appended to the text to be outputed to the INF file.

    For example,

    I have column A and Column B in sheet1 , under column A I might have "Set Screen lock to on" and on the same Row I might have under Column B "1" however on the corresponding row in sheet 2 the value under column A would be "screensvr =" the resulting text to be output would be "screensvr = 1" etc...

    Hope thats clearer, and sorry for the very slow response.

    Thanks

    Lebar
    Last edited by shg; 08-11-2010 at 11:29 AM. Reason: deleted quote

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