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Direct editing of policy files (registry.pol)
posted on November 11th 2020, at 14:40
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lunarg
I ran into an issue where a local group policy had settings that were not accessible or editable using the conventional Local Group Policy editor (gpedit.msc), causing unwanted settings to be re-applied each time the group policy was refreshed. After a bit of searching around on the internet, I found a Powershell module with the ability to add, edit and remove individual items directly from Registry.pol policy files.
The module PolicyFileEditor can be downloaded and installed easily through Powershell:
Install-Module -Name PolicyFileEditor
As with everything from PSGallery, you need to have NuGet installed and updated.
The module comes with examples on how to use it. It can also be viewe
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