Using SMS to change registry settings.

[bgfs]

I've heard you can use SMS 2.0 to change registry settings on deployed systems. The systems concerned are W2K Pro workstations. Does anyone have any clues how this is done?

 

[globalstrata]

Yes. If you write scripts to do the changes for you and configure a package with the script path and then advertise the package to your clients.


Gladys Rodriguez
GlobalStrata Solutions

http://www.globalstrata.com

 

[tbrennans]

You can do this easily with sms installer also (which as Gladys said IS scripting....kind of)

 

[johnnyb99]

You can export the registry changes from a system with the changes already in place and the create a package that invokes: regedit /s <export_filename>

This will run regedit in silent mode and import the registry entries from the export file created above.

This is much easier than scripting and using sms installer.

 

[globalstrata]

I think he has to use scripting because this is to import information to many systems at once.

The one thing that I like about doing the script through SMS or through MOM is that it is in a centralized location where you get some logging if they do not run. I have had customers that run tasks from Task Manager, set them to run under a particular, forget about them and then disable the account. Then it has taken a bit of time to find out what has happened.


Gladys Rodriguez
GlobalStrata Solutions

http://www.globalstrata.com

 

[johnnyb99]

Creating a package that invokes regedit can advertized to one or several systems.

I can script, but why go through the trouble of writing one when regedit is so much easier!