Skips Fonts Already Installed

After searching the web and connecting scripts together I manage to get it working. So I thought I would share. If it helped me, it may help others.

I would never call myself a coder so others may find better ways of doing this. But with the script it will look at the location you select on $Path= and then check C:\Users$username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts for any that have already been installed. It will also only install files that are .fon .otf .ttc and .ttf. I needed this bit as users tend to also put some images in this location even when told not to.

$FONTS = 0x14
$Path="\\NAS LOCATION\Fonts"
$FontItem = Get-Item -Path $Path
$FontList = Get-ChildItem -Path "$FontItem\*" -Include ('*.fon','*.otf','*.ttc','*.ttf')
$objShell = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$objFolder = $objShell.Namespace($FONTS)
$Fontdir = dir $Path
$username = $env:UserName
  
foreach($File in $FontList) {
    if(!($file.name -match "pfb$"))
    {
        $try = $true
        $installedFonts = @(Get-ChildItem C:\Users\$username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $false} | Select-Object basename)
        $name = $File.baseName
    
        foreach($font in $installedFonts)
        {
            $font = $font -replace "_", ""
            $name = $name -replace "_", ""
            if ($font -match $name)
            {
                $try = $false
            }
        }
        if ($try)
        {
            $objFolder.CopyHere($File.fullname)
        }
    }
}

Credits goes to the following people/Posts. Jordan Malcolm - https://jordanmalcolm.com/deploying-windows-10-fonts-at-scale/ CloudCompanyApps - https://cloudcompanyapps.com/2019/06/06/install-windows-fonts-with-powershell/