Aloaha Enterprise Support

One of today’s enterprise requirements is the possibility to roam profiles or simply to reset configuration data every time a user logs in.

Aloaha PDF Suite offers a very flexible way to accomplish this. Instead of using the registry for the global and user settings the user can opt to map the registry to ini files.

The advantages of this registry2ini mapping are huge.

• Settings are stored in plain text files and can be included in your company’s backup strategy.
• Settings can be easily roamed across different machines.
• Well defined configurations can be kept centrally on a fileserver.
• User profiles in NT4 Domains can be kept read-only for extra security.
• Configuration settings can be done to one central configuration file and distributed to the clients.
• Advanced Citrix Metaframe and Terminal Services compatibility.

 

The following registry keys are available to configure the registry2ini mapping. Make sure that all keys are of the type REG_SZ (string).

• useini
  possible values are 0 and 1. 0 for ini mapping off and 1 for ini mapping enabled.
• userini
  location of the ini file for user settings (HKCU)
• userinimaster
  if specified userinimaster will be copied over userini at the beginning of the startup of Aloaha
• globalini
  location of the ini file for global settings (everything except HKCU)
• globalinimaster
  if specified globalinimaster will be copied over globalini at the beginning of the startup of Aloaha
• precommand
  specifies the command being call before globalinimaster and userinimaster are copied. Could hold a command to map a network drive.
  For example cmd.exe "/c net use U: \\gate\d$"

These keys are located in HKLM\Software\Aloaha

How do I enable the Aloaha registry2ini mapping feature?

• Stop all running creator.exe instances.
• Open the registry editor and create a string value useini in HKLM\Software\Aloaha with value 1. Please make sure to use type REG_SZ
• Define the inifiles to be used.
  • HKLM\Software\Aloaha\userini will keep user based settings
  • HKLM\Software\Aloaha\globalini will keep global settings
• All HKCU\Software\Aloaha Hives can be deleted now since they are not used anymore

 
How do I resetting settings to a defined state every time Aloaha starts?

If you define the keys HKLM\Software\Aloaha\userinimaster and HKLM\Software\Aloaha\globalinimaster these files will be always copied over userini and globalini whenever Aloaha starts.

How do I map a network drive fully automatic whenever Aloaha starts?

Just configure a command such as cmd.exe "/c net use U: \\2x\d$" in the precommand value.

Please note that Aloaha supports two predefined variables. They are %mydocuments% and %user%. If these variables are used in one of the above settings they be be resolved automatically. For example %user% will be replaced with the current logged on user.