I assume you know that under Customize > Style Manager that you can both create new styles and import styles from anywhere on the network including network shares (the "Add Style to List" button).If you don't want them to have to import the style themselves and you have network administrator access, you could probably just write a simple python script that copies your new style (which you can create in Style Manager), to c:\program files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\Styles and the users would see it when they click the More Styles button when selecting their styles in ArcMap. Note that the path would change depending on what version of ArcGIS you guys are using since obviously it would not say 10.2 if you are running 10.1, and the program files (x86) part could change depending on what operating system you are using. I wrote a quick Python script for you to show you how you could copy it and check different folders to see if the target folder exists before copying. I put in one path from ArcGIS Desktop on 64bit server 2008 and one from an imaginary Vista Desktop install. Just change the paths and style name in the code. You could have your Network Administrator make this execute once on all of your machines.import os
import sys
import shutil
# Put the network share where the source style is found here:
# Note do not remove the r in front of the quotes
# StylePath=r"\\servername\share\folder\file.ext"
StylePath=r"\\nglaa0-cbem-ag1\software"
# Put the name of the style here
StyleName="test1.style"
Server2008OutPath=r"C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\Styles"
VistaOutPath=r"C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\Styles"
if os.path.isdir(Server2008OutPath):
try:
print "Copying %s" % StyleName
shutil.copyfile(os.path.join(StylePath,StyleName),os.path.join(Server2008OutPath,StyleName))
except:
print "Error copying"
elif os.path.isdir(VistaOutPath):
try:
print "Copying %s" % StyleName
shutil.copyfile(os.path.join(StylePath,StyleName),os.path.join(VistaOutPath,StyleName))
except:
print "Error copying"
else:
print "Could not find ArcGIS style folder"
