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Text notice gets truncated when applied to registry via group policy

Tags: Microsoft, Active Directory, V5.2
Our workstation legal notice (displayed at logon) gets truncated when applied via Group Policy.  The registry key that contains the legal notice is:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]

The legal notice (200 words, 1,350 characters, 16 lines) is truncated by about 50%.

We can successfully load the full text and banner page with the following code in a logon script:

:BANNER
echo   Standardizing legal warning banner.
if not exist %WINDIR%\20020215.REG %WINDIR%\REGEDIT.EXE /e %WINDIR%\20020215.REG "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system"
DTREG.EXE -q -s REG_SZ "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system\legalnoticecaption"="NOTICE TO USERS"
DTREG.EXE @BANNER.CFG

Any ideas on why the notice is truncated when applied with the Group Policy?

Thanks,
Jim M.
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Zone: Networking
Question Asked By: jalymo
Solution Provided By: jcoppin
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Solution Grade: A
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