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Registry Changes through a GPO

I am looking for some insight here as I am by far no expert in writing.vbs or .bat file scripts. I have a situation where I am looking to add a DWord value to 2 seperate registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences
DWORD: ExchangeAddressDetect
Value: 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover
DWORD: DisableAutoStartup
Value: 1

I am looking to push this out through a logon script in a GPO however I have not had much success in doing this. I am wondering if it has something to do with either the fact that it is a HKEY_CURRENT_USER vs a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or maybe it has something to do with permissions.

I have created (let me rephrase, copied) a .bat file which looks like:
@ECHO OFF
regedit /s DisableAutoStartup.reg
regedit /s ExchangeAddressDetect.reg
cls

Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated as I am trying to meet a deadline.

Thanks,

SysExpert

some options

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21646655/Changing-the-registry-with-a-GPO.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24465700/Deplying-registry-updates-via-GPO-issue.html

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23499245/Help-with-Custom-GPO-and-registry-settings.html

I hope this helps !

SysExpert

Two more

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/22019525/GPO-registry-key-change.html

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/24952343/Change-Registry-key-using-GPO.html

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Worked like a charm.

Thanks,