Issue #13006 has been updated by Josh Cooper.

Category set to windows
Keywords set to windows registry


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Feature #13006: Windows registry provider.
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13006#change-59227

Author: Nigel Kersten
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: windows
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: windows registry
Branch: 


**WORK IN PROGRESS**
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Overview
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We've had significant demand from Windows Puppet evaluators for functionality 
to manage the registry on Windows.

This is a common thing Windows sysadmins need to do, expressed desired 
functionality is to:

  * Pre-license software
  * Modify proxy settings
  * Manage custom application registry settings.

For our first release, we are not going to target recursion in the registry.

Terminology
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Note that a registry 'key' is not a key in the traditional associative array 
sense, as keys contain a 'value', which is a name/data pair, so keys can be 
thought of as associative arrays themselves.


Open Questions
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  * What do we do about subkeys? If we're not doing recursion, do we simply 
ignore them when retrieving the state of a key?
  * Is it technically feasible to manage HKU for user profiles that aren't 
loaded? *Nigel seems to remember this is problematic but could be deluded.*

Required Functionality
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Managing state of keys in the following hives:

  * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)
  * HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR)
  * HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU)
    * *Does this make sense to manage idempotently given the current user 
changes?*
    * *See open question around HKU*






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