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Now what I want to do is finish up by talking about yet another popular area in GP preferences.

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And that's the GP preferences registry extension.

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So this is a really great tool for managing registry changes.

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It's available both per computer and per user under preferences.

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Backslash.

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Backslash Window Settings.

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Backslash Registry.

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And it's really, you know, if you contrasted with admin templates, which as you remember from a previous

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module, requires those DMX files to dictate which registry, keys and values I'm modifying.

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The registry extension in preferences really allows for kind of a free form way of setting registry

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keys and values.

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And it's not just strictly limited to those four policy keys.

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It will tattoo the registry because it doesn't follow the same non tattooing behavior as those four

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keys under admin templates.

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At least it doesn't have to.

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Let's put it that way.

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You're more than welcome to use GP preferences registry extension to make changes to those policy keys.

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That the admin templates policies typically make changes to, but any changes made to the registry outside

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of those four keys will tattoo your system unless you work around it.

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So it it's really much more flexible than what you've got with admin templates and certainly you don't

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have to write custom DMX files to use this extension.

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So that part of it is really handy.

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It's really kind of goofy, driven utility for making and distributing registry changes.

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And it supports kind of three different sort of modes or ways of approaching the problem.

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So the first one is to just create an individual registry item so you can pick a key and a value and

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set the value on it and push it into your GPO and you're done.

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The second one is really not a different mode, so much as a different way of organizing registry items.

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So you can actually create collections of registry items.

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So if you have a bunch of registry items that you want to sort of associate, maybe with a particular

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application, you can create a collection folder in the GPO and then put your registry items into that.

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And it's just a good way of organizing like registry changes.

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And then finally there's a wizard driven capability that lets you import whole groups or trees of registry

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settings on an existing system.

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So whether it's the system where you're editing policy or some remote system, you can connect to the

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registry and just almost suck the registry keys and values out of that machine.

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And into the policy and then deliver that to your systems.

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So this is really handy if you've got kind of a gold image of the registry values that you want to push

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out.

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You can use this wizard to get those into a preference policy and push them to your clients.

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So let's look at little bit at this.

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So the registry item one is a pretty straightforward UI.

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You've got these, you know, basically the Hague HQ, I underscore local underscore machine HQ current

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user.

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You specify the key path, the value name, and then the value type and the value data, and then you're

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done.

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With the registry item collection.

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What you see here is I've got a collection called collection and underneath it I've got a registry item

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called Remote, and that's essentially part of that collection.

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And then finally the registry wizard lets you literally browse a registry structure and choose the keys

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and values that you want to push into policy.

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So let's take a look at that and see how this works in practice.

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Will distribute some registry changes and see how it comes out.