group policies for Management Studio

[fredericofonseca]

Hi all,

Been looking the net for this and could not find it - maybe not possible, or different search criteria required.

Basically I am looking for a way to create and enforce a Windows group policy at domain level to force particular settings for SSMS, mainly the text editor options for tabs - e.g. need to be able to force all developers to use a particular number of tabs, and also to force these tabs to be expanded to spaces.

there are 4 of these settings that would need to be applied. (menu tools->options->Text editor)

and then settings in "all languages", "Plain text", "transact SQL" and "XML".

If anyone knows if (and how) to do this through Group Policies it would be great to know how

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[mrdenny]

There is no GPO setting to control these.

Why are you trying to control the environment that the developers work in? People often work best when you let them be to do their thing and customize their workspace to their liking.

If I went to work somewhere where they tried to control how my SSMS windows looked I'd be looking for another job that day.

Denny
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[fredericofonseca]

replacing tabs with spaces automatically means that any formatting is kept from one machine to another and from one editor to another.

Does not in any way affect how SSMS looks - but it does help enforce standards e.g. all code must have X spaces indentation

Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[mrdenny]

The same formatting would be shown if the kep tabs instead of spaces. Again there's no way to do this via GPO. You would have to have everyone set this manually on their workstations.

Denny
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