On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:32:11, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > Nils �stbjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering why auconfig.pl sets > > > > "HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/WindowsUpdate/Auto Update" > > > > instead of using the policies in > > > > "HKLM/SOFTWARE/Policies/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate/AU" > > Well, at the time I wrote auconfig.pl, there was no documentation from > Microsoft, so I relied on third-party docs and my own experiments. > > Nowadays, there is documentation from MS > (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328010), but it lists the other > registry key. > > > The reason I ask is that I was planing to modify the auconfig.pl to > > include the posibility to change the windowsupdate server to a local > > SUS server, ect. and all docs I have seen says I should use the > > policies key. > > Obviously, we should switch to using the documented key. Except... > People discovered the other key by monitoring what the Control Panel > GUI tool does. So what happens if you set the "Policies" key in the > registry, and then the user tries to change the settings with the GUI?
Well that one is easy to answer. The user cant change the setting. It is greyed out. > I would like to know before we make this change. Anybody care to > experiment? Already did. The way Im doing the script it could be made backwards compatible with the old key, for the ppl that want that, while provinding support for the new key as well. My biggest problem is that I havent really got any experience with perl. I'll try to fiddle with it this weekend. Nils -- Nils �stbjerg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
