Scripting registry changes

mattyj1085 · 7 Jun 2011 at 10:23

I need a script that will look at this key and replace values in the session data key.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Web Filtering\%username.Domain\Session Data\

The thing is for each user profile on the PC there is a different %username.domain key

eg
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Web Filtering\test1.RSG\Session Data\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Web Filtering\test2.RSG\Session Data\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Web Filtering\test3.RSG\Session Data\

How can I do a batch file or start up script to go through all the different profile keys and replace certain values in each profiles session data key?

For example this is a reg export of what changes I want to make to test1.RSG but I also want to make the changes to all the profile keys on the computer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Web Filtering\test1.RSG\Session Data]
"UserName"=""
"Password"=hex:
"AuthenticationCode"=hex:
"ProcessUploadURL"="/webfilter/services/processlist.php"
"ConnectionListURL"="/webfilter/services/connectionlist.php"
"PrimeLoginURL"="/webfilter/services/webreq.php"
"RemoteProxyServerAddress"="wg.uk.wrproxy.com"
"RemoteProxyServerPort"="3128"
"LocalProxyPort"="3128"
"ConnectionList"=""
"EnablePrimeLogin"=dword:00000001
"EnableCyberCafeMode"=dword:00000000
"AllowProcessUpdate"=dword:00000000
"ServiceURL"="http://weblogin1.webroot.com"
"ObtainedPrimingURLs"=dword:00000001
"AllowUnSafeBrowsing"=dword:00000000
"UpdateStamp"=dword:00000000
"CachingProxyServerAddress"=""
"CachingProxyServerPort"=""
"LoggingLevel"="everything"
"EnableAutoConfigScript"=dword:00000000
"AutoConfigScriptAddress"=""
"LocalAutoConfigScriptAddress"=""

Tried to explain as best I can hopefully someone will get what I mean!

Thanks

Ranked1_of_1 · 7 Jun 2011 at 13:00

I've only just started learning PowerShell, but even from the few tutorials I've worked through I would say it is ideal for this sort of task. Sorry I can't give you an example script, but it might be worth you having a look at the following sites :

http://www.powershellpro.com/powershell-tutorial-introduction/
http://powershell.com/cs/

I'm sure a PowerShell guru will be along soon to help you out a bit more.

mattyj1085 · 7 Jun 2011 at 15:35

Thanks mate

UKDTweak · 7 Jun 2011 at 15:40

How about creating a security group for each user,test1reg, test2reg, then you can use IfMember in your .bat to call the relevant .reg key for each user?

mattyj1085 · 7 Jun 2011 at 17:55

UKDTweak said:
How about creating a security group for each user,test1reg, test2reg, then you can use IfMember in your .bat to call the relevant .reg key for each user?

I've got 200 users and PC's I need to run this on don't want to have to create a security account for each

Xelene · 7 Jun 2011 at 18:41

Do you not have a login script you can hook into?

mattyj1085 · 7 Jun 2011 at 19:10

sldsmkd said:
Do you not have a login script you can hook into?

Not yet but thats something else I need to sort out

Ranked1_of_1 · 17 Jun 2011 at 08:56

Did you managed to get this sorted matty?

I've continued dabbling with Powershell and I could probably come up with an example script now if you were interested?

mattyj1085 · 17 Jun 2011 at 18:27

Yeah sorted now, ended up pushing out registry changes using group policy preferences.

Cheers

Ranked1_of_1 · 17 Jun 2011 at 20:12

No worries. I used your issue as a way of testing myself to see how much I'd learnt. Managed to come up with something earlier that allowed you to insert a list of Computer names and then it would check that they were online and that the reg keys existed. If they were it would make the neccessary changes and log it all to a text file. Was a good little project as I was quite pleased with it in the end.

Xelene · 17 Jun 2011 at 22:36

mattyj1085 said:
Not yet but thats something else I need to sort out

Pretty easy to get a stub up and running, you can sort that out in AD.