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Warren P
Asked: 2013-03-27 09:48:27 +0800 CST

How can I deploy a single .reg file so that it can be stored to a whole bunch of different USER accounts on a non-domain terminal server?

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There is a software tweak that I have to make for all users on a terminal server system, that is not available to me as a group policy option, but which exists as a key in regedit under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE.

If I was willing to write some code (making this no longer a pure IT question) I suppose I could somehow reverse engineer which HKEY_USERS keys are for which users that need the fix.

To save me from logging in as 10 users on a terminal server and just double clicking a .reg file, is there some tool I could use, that will "deploy a registry change to HKEY_CURRENT_USERS for a set of users on a single machine"?

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  1. Best Answer

    If the server is Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2102 you can create a local Non-Administrators group policy object that will apply to all non-administrators logging on to the server. You should be able to deploy the REG file in a logon script.

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  2. you can via GPO have the machines in question run a script that pushes the staged regkey you want to those machines.

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  3. create a key (String Value) in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and point it to a batch file that says:

    @ECHO OFF
IF EXIST %userprofile%\reg_ran exit
C:\directoryAllCanAccess\regfile.REG
echo "It Ran" >> %userprofile%\reg_ran

    Or just point HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce directly to the C:\directory_all_can_access\REG file, I think that would work too.

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