Indeed, another priceless nugget. Thank you! -- ME2
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you! I thought someone had talked about this before but couldn't find > that discussion and with nothing coming up in my searches, maybe I had > dreamed it... good to know I'm not dreaming about this stuff. :) > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Odd Vista problem with cmd.exe > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: Odd Vista problem with cmd.exe >> >> Now can somebody answer my Vista question - for these registry changes >> that >> don't exist as group policy settings, does anyone have an example .admx >> file >> to implement one? Or cook-book style documentation for same? >> >> I've been googling until my fingers bled and not found any. I found a >> blog >> that talked about the .adm files and promised to further blog about >> doing >> the same in .admx files, but that was over a year ago and nothing yet. >> >> I also googled for reg2admx - nobody's done that trick yet. > > Since you are running Vista, what about Group Policy Preferences: > > Registry > > The Registry preference extension provides a flexible and easy-to-use way to > create, replace, update, and delete registry settings on multiple computers. > To use Group Policy settings to configure arbitrary registry settings, you > must create an Administrative template. With the Registry extension, you can > use three different preference types to add Registry preference items to a > GPO and organize them: > > . Registry Item. Configure an individual registry setting, including > the REG_SZ, REG_DWORD, REG_BINARY, REG_MULTI_SZ, and REG_EXPAND_SZ types. > > . Collection Item. Create a folder in which to organize Registry > items, similar to how Windows organizes settings in them. However, you don't > have to organize these folders in the same hierarchy as the registry keys > and subkeys. Instead, you can organize settings by department, location, and > so on. > > . Registry Wizard. Import one or more registry settings from the local > computer or from a remote computer. You can select individual registry > settings or entire registry branches. > > Using the Registry preference extension is a great way to deploy settings > without having to write scripts. For example, you can deploy settings for a > third-party application or an application that isn't Group Policy-aware. > However, using the Registry extension to deploy settings for which Group > Policy preferences already provide a user interface is discouraged. > > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=42e30e3f-6f01-4610- > 9d6e-f6e0fb7a0790&DisplayLang=en > > > Webster > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
