VBScript: Change Word Document Template

During most of my Infrastructure and Migration projects, most customers have the same issue. After migrating the file data to a new server, old documents may try to access their original document template on which they are based on.
Unfortunately, the referenced path is not a mapped network drive or a relative path – it is a UNC Path containing the old server name.

Therefore, I wrote a little script that will process all Word Documents within a given path and replace the old Server and or Share name with the new ones. After that, the launch of these old documents will be much faster.
You need write permissions to all Word Documents which should be changed and of course you need to have Microsoft Word (I used Word 2010) installed:

' #####################################################################
' ##
' ## (C) 2012 Michael Miklis (michaelmiklis.de)
' ##
' ##
' ## Filename:      ChangeWordDocumentTemplate.vbs
' ##
' ## Version:	    1.0
' ##
' ## Release:	    Final
' ##
' ## Requirements:  -none-
' ##
' ## Description:   Changes the template in doc files
' ##
' ## This script is provided 'AS-IS'.  The author does not provide
' ## any guarantee or warranty, stated or implied.  Use at your own
' ## risk. You are free to reproduce, copy & modify the code, but
' ## please give the author credit.
' ##
' ####################################################################
Option Explicit

Dim strFilePath
Dim strPath
Dim intCounter
Dim strFileName
Dim OldServer
Dim NewServer
Dim objDoc
Dim objTemplate
Dim dlgTemplate
Dim objWord
Dim strFileArr
Dim objFs
Dim i

Const wdDialogToolsTemplates = 87

Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.Filesystemobject")

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.Visible = false

strFilePath = "C:Usersmichaeldesktop"
OldServer = "vv"
NewServer = "OLD-FILESERVERsharefolder1"

If Right(strFilePath, 1) = "" Then strFilePath = Left(strFilePath, Len(strFilePath) - 1)

strFileArr = Split(CreateFileList(objFS.GetFolder(strFilePath),true), vbCr)

For i=0 to UBound(strFileArr)
	If NOT strFileArr(i) = "" then
		strFileName = strFileArr(i)

		wscript.echo "--------------------------------------------------"
		wscript.echo "Processing File: " & strFilename

		Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open(strFileName)
		Set objTemplate = objDoc.AttachedTemplate
		Set dlgTemplate = objWord.Dialogs(wdDialogToolsTemplates)
		strPath = dlgTemplate.Template

		wscript.echo "Old Template Name: " & strPath

		'// Only process templates based on old server
		If LCase(Left(strPath, Len(OldServer))) = LCase(OldServer) Then
			wscript.echo "Template needs to be changed..."
			'objDoc.AttachedTemplate = NewServer & Mid(strPath, Len(OldServer) + 1)
			wscript.echo "New Template Name: " & NewServer & Mid(strPath, Len(OldServer) + 1)
		End If

		objDoc.Save
		objDoc.Close

		wscript.echo "--------------------------------------------------"
		wscript.echo ""
	End If
Next

Set objDoc = Nothing
Set objTemplate = Nothing
Set dlgTemplate = Nothing

'// Close Word
objWord.Quit (False)

'______________________FUNCTIONS & SUB ROUTINES_______________________

Function CreateFileList(objFolder, bRecursive)
	'//
<summary> '// Creates a List containing all Files
 '// </summary>
	'//Root-Folder for searching
	'//Search recursive
	Dim objFile, objSubFolder

        For each objFile in objFolder.Files
		If Right(lcase(objFile),4) = ".doc" OR Right(lcase(objFile),5) = ".docx" AND NOT Left(objFile.Name,1) = "~" then
	        	CreateFileList = CreateFileList & objFile.Path & vbCr
		End If
	Next

	If bRecursive = true then
		For each objSubFolder in objFolder.Subfolders
			CreateFileList = CreateFileList & CreateFileList(objSubFolder, true)
	        Next
	End If
End Function