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Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:05 PM | 1 vote
When i make a change to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies or HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies it doesn't reflect the policy setting in the local group policy editor. is there a reason for this? It just shows "Not Configured" in the GUI.
Is it a poor practice to set local policy from the registry? If Yes, then can anyone tell me how i can set local policy from the command line or with a script?
Lets try to keep domain policy out of the discussion please. i am talking strictly about local policy and gpedit.msc.
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Monday, December 7, 2015 11:02 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote
Usually it is other way around, which means yo set policy and it reflect in Registry.
You could do it using PowerShell, take a look at:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd315394.aspx
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 8:00 AM ✅Answered
Hi,
Base on my knowledge, it seems designed by default that the Registry will not affect the display in GPedit.msc.
Group policy for the local machine is stored in the registry.
The lame approach for modifying it, is via the Command Prompt using the reg command. This is less than practical because it requires absolute knowledge of each and every local policy registry setting, and errors here may be quite disastrous.
The tool to use instead is PowerShell, Microsoft's successor to the Command Prompt.
Some articles that can start you on the way to using PowerShell cmdlets for local policy changes are :
Use Windows PowerShell to Manage Group Policy
Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for Group Policy
Group Policy management for IT pros
Group Policy
Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server
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Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:18 AM
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