salt.states.win_lgpo_reg¶

LGPO - Registry.pol¶

New in version 3006.0.

A state module for working with registry based policies in Windows Local Group Policy (LGPO). This module contains functions for working with the Registry.pol file. The Registry.pol file is the source of truth for registry settings and LGPO.

Group Policy is refreshed every 90 seconds by default. During that refresh the contents of the Registry.pol file are applied to the Registry. If the setting is changed outside of Group Policy to something other than what is contained in the Registry.pol file, it will be changed back during the next refresh.

In the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) these policies can be set to three states:

Not Configured
Enabled
Disabled

A policy that is "Not Configured" does not have an entry in the Registry.pol file. A Group Policy refresh will not make any changes to key/value pairs in the registry that are not specified in the Registry.pol file.

An "Enabled" policy will have an entry in the Registry.pol files that contains its key path, value name, value type, value size, and value data. When Group Policy is refreshed, existing values will be overwritten with those contained in the Registry.pol file.

A "Disabled" policy will have an entry in the Registry.pol file with the key path and the value name, but the value name will be prepended with **del.. When Group Policy is refreshed the key/value will be deleted from the registry. If the key contains no values, it will also be deleted.

Working with LGPO Reg¶

The easiest way to figure out the values needed for this module is to set the policy using the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) and then run the lgpo_reg.read_reg_pol function. This function will display a dictionary of all registry-based policies in the Registry.pol file. From its return you can get the key, v_name, v_type, and v_data required to configure that policy.

Note

Not all policies in the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) that write to the registry make that change in the Registry.pol file. Those policies could still be enforced via the Registry.pol file... theoretically. But you will have to find the values needed to set them with this module using a different method.

salt.states.win_lgpo_reg.value_absent(name, key, policy_class='Machine')¶

Ensure a registry setting is not present in the Registry.pol file.

Parameters:

key (str) -- The registry key path
name (str) -- The registry value name within the key
policy_class (str) --
The registry class to write to. Can be one of the following:
- Computer
- Machine
- User
Default is Machine

CLI Example:

# Using the name parameter in the definition
set_reg_pol_value:
  lgpo_reg.value_absent:
    - key: SOFTWARE\MyKey
    - name: MyValue
    - policy_class: Machine


# Using the name as the parameter and modifying the User policy
MyValue:
  lgpo_reg.value_absent:
    - key: SOFTWARE\MyKey
    - policy_class: User

salt.states.win_lgpo_reg.value_disabled(name, key, policy_class='Machine')¶

Ensure a registry setting is disabled in the Registry.pol file.

Parameters:

key (str) -- The registry key path
name (str) -- The registry value name within the key
policy_class (str) --
The registry class to write to. Can be one of the following:
- Computer
- Machine
- User
Default is Machine

CLI Example:

# Using the name parameter in the definition
set_reg_pol_value:
  lgpo_reg.value_disabled:
    - key: SOFTWARE\MyKey
    - name: MyValue
    - policy_class: Machine


# Using the name as the parameter and modifying the User policy
MyValue:
  lgpo_reg.value_disabled:
    - key: SOFTWARE\MyKey
    - policy_class: User

salt.states.win_lgpo_reg.value_present(name, key, v_data, v_type='REG_DWORD', policy_class='Machine')¶

Ensure a registry setting is present in the Registry.pol file.

Parameters:

name (str) -- The registry value name within the key
key (str) -- The registry key path
v_data (str) -- The registry value
v_type (str) --
The registry value type. Must be one of the following:
- REG_BINARY
- REG_DWORD
- REG_EXPAND_SZ
- REG_MULTI_SZ
- REG_QWORD
- REG_SZ
Default is REG_DWORD
policy_class (str) --
The registry class to write to. Can be one of the following:
- Computer
- Machine
- User
Default is Machine

CLI Example:

# Using the name parameter in the definition
set_reg_pol_value:
  lgpo_reg.value_present:
    - key: SOFTWARE\MyKey
    - name: MyValue
    - v_type: REG_SZ
    - v_data: "some string data"
    - policy_class: Machine


# Using the name as the parameter and modifying the User policy
MyValue:
  lgpo_reg.value_present:
    - key: SOFTWARE\MyKey
    - v_type: REG_SZ
    - v_data: "some string data"
    - policy_class: User

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