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Manipulating the registry via Intune push
Our goal is simple: Manipulate the registry as part of application deployment or PowerShell script. Use case: When we install our VPN client, there are a raft of registry updates that need to be ...
Progress! I have a major update and hope that y'all can help me narrow in on it from here.
It turns out all of my registry imports were happening and my test attempts to create new registry entries were successful as well. The issues is that instead of going into HKLM\Software\... they went into HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node. I'm working with a 64-bit version of Win11 22H2 (I just confirmed this). I'm researching the issue now but it appears to be a 32-bit vs 64-bit conundrum.
I'm posting this here as a stream of consciousness to capture it for the next person who's struggling with this. If you have any words of wisdom, I'm all ears!
It turns out all of my registry imports were happening and my test attempts to create new registry entries were successful as well. The issues is that instead of going into HKLM\Software\... they went into HKLM\Software\WOW6432Node. I'm working with a 64-bit version of Win11 22H2 (I just confirmed this). I'm researching the issue now but it appears to be a 32-bit vs 64-bit conundrum.
I'm posting this here as a stream of consciousness to capture it for the next person who's struggling with this. If you have any words of wisdom, I'm all ears!
Thanks for posting this, joemclain. Sounds like I went through similar struggles trying to push a registry change via Win32 app. A lot (or maybe all) of the blogs and articles talk about using Remediations and Scripts, etc - but not a Win32 app.
