Microsoft 79G-03775, T5D01575 manual Add/Modify Registry Entry dialog box, Root

To create a list of registry entries to add to users' computers, choose Add. To change an entry in the list, select the entry and choose Modify. To remove an entry from the list, select the entry and choose Remove. Choose Import to add a set of entries from a registry file (.reg file). If an entry in the .reg file duplicates an entry in the list, the OCT prompts you to decide whether to overwrite existing registry entries with entries in the .reg file.

Important:

Registry entries customized in this section might override settings that are customized elsewhere in the OCT. Use this section to customize options that cannot be set directly in the Office user interface and that are not configurable by using other methods in the OCT.

You should not use the Add registry entries section of the OCT to add registry-based policy keys (Group Policy-based registry keys). Configuring and distributing those settings in a customization update (.msp file) to users is not supported, and the settings might not be applied correctly. Registry-based policy settings are settings that are stored in any of the four registry locations for Group Policy settings:

For user policy settings:

∙HKCU\Software\Policies

∙HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies For computer policy settings:

∙HKLM\Software\Policies

∙HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

The supported way to manage registry-based policy keys is to use Group Policy to apply the registry policy settings. By using Group Policy, you can centrally manage client registry keys. Use Group Policy to define configurations once and then rely on the operating system to enforce that state. Administrative Templates files are UNICODE text files that Group Policy uses to describe where registry-based policy settings are stored in the registry. All registry- based policy settings appear and are configured in Group Policy Management Editor in Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) under the Administrative Templates nodes.

Add/Modify Registry Entry dialog box

In the Add/Modify Registry Entry dialog box, enter the information that is shown in the following table for each registry entry, and then choose OK.

Add/Modify Registry Entry dialog box options

	Setting	Description
Root		Select the branch that contains the entries that you want to add or change. Settings
		are applied one time per user (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) or one time per computer
		(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE). You cannot add registry entries to the root of
		HKEY_USERS or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Data type		Select a data type for the registry value.

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