Hi --
I'm trying to create a simple agent procedure to run a .reg file that has a mix of HKCU and HKLM keys. It is being run on 64-bit Windows machines. I've tried Execute Shell Command regedit.exe /s C:\xyz\file.reg, setting it to Run As System. VSA reports success, but the keys still don't get imported.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Perhaps give the native setRegistry commands in the Agent.Procedure editor a try rather than setting via command line?
help.kaseya.com/.../9050000
setRegistryValue() / set64BitRegistryValue()
The problem is it’s a moderately large file with dozens of registry keys, and I didn’t create it. Trying to recreate that line by line would be time consuming and likely induce many errors.
Fair enough. I can understand that.
With your "Execute Shell Command", you said you've got it set to "Run as System" ....Have you tested setting that run-as section to "Execute as System in 64-bit Shell"
This is selectable in the drop-down ... seeing as you're using the procedure on 64-bit Windows systems?
executeShellCommand ("<MyCommand>", "Execute as System in 64-bit Shell", "All_OS", "Halt on Fail")
Tried that, but it doesn't appear to have worked. Procedure log reports Success Then, but the result of the reg import (software license renewal) didn't happen.
Just run the DOS reg add command for each entry works fine
ExecuteShellcmd
REG ADD "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CSC\Parameters" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
if you want we can have a look together? debug a litle
Note that if your reg file contains keys for HKCU, then "execute as system" will not result in showing up in the actual current user's (logged in user) registry.
I believe you can also have the .reg run as a parameter for regedit.exe... like this;
regedit.exe /S yourFile.reg
I would include full path, like this;
#vAgentConfiguration.agentTempDir#\regedit.exe /S #vAgentConfiguration.agentTempDir#\yourFile.reg
Also, make sure you ONLY run this on the exact OS and version you exported the .reg from.