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Distributing registry changes to clients without administrator rights

I have changes to 2 registry subkeys that I need to distribute to a number of Windows NT 4.0 clients on my Windows 2003 Server network.

Both changes are to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkey but the users do not have local admin rights.

I can write a batch file to do this but it wont work without these rights.
I looked at POLEDIT but it didnt seem to have options for these settings.

Can anyone help....

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Pete Long

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oBdA

An .adm file for the use with poledit is (probably) easily created; what exactly are the keys you want to change, which data should they have, which types are the values?

troops993

Below is an adm i created to change requested registry keys.

Hopefully you can see what is going on. If not post the Reg keys that you need to change and one of us will create an adm for you to import to AD.

Regards

|-------------------------------------------------ADM BELOW---------------------------------------------------|
CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY !!SystemCat

      CATEGORY !!USBServicesCat

            POLICY !!USBMassStorage

                  KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR"
                  #if version >= 4
                        SUPPORTED !!SUPPORTED_Windows2000
                  #endif

                  #if version >= 3
                        EXPLAIN !!USBStorageCfg_Help
                  #endif

                  VALUENAME "Start"
                        VALUEOFF NUMERIC 3
                        VALUEON NUMERIC 4

            END POLICY
END CATEGORY ;; USBServicesCat
[Strings]
SystemCat="System"
USBMassStorage="Disable Access to USB Storage Devices"
SUPPORTED_Windows2000="Windows .NET Server family, 2000, XP"
PowerCfg_Help=" Disables the Power Config"
USBStorageCfg_Help="Setting this policy to Enabled stops USB Storage Devices from loading"
|-------------------------------------------------ADM END---------------------------------------------------|