{"id":3899,"date":"2017-12-26T10:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2017-12-26T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T06:32:32","slug":"adding-registry-keys-to-ntuser-dat-for-multiple-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/citrix\/adding-registry-keys-to-ntuser-dat-for-multiple-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Registry keys to NTUSER.DAT for multiple users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I had <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/aside\/aside-profile-manager-ntuser-dat-editing\/\">pointed to a<\/a> blog post I found wherein the author wrote a script to push registry keys to the NTUSER.DAT profile file of a large number of users. I wanted to try something similar in my own environment and while I didn&#8217;t go with the script I found I made up something quick and dirty of my own. I know it isn&#8217;t as thorough as the one from that blog post (so I&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citrixirc.com\/?p=354\">link to it again<\/a>) but it serves my need. :)<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the deal. I have a bunch of profiles located at &#8220;<code>\\\\path\\to\\profiles\\ctxprofiles$<\/code>&#8220;. It has both v4 and v6 profiles. I&#8217;d only like to target the v4 profiles, and that too a specific user for testing. This user&#8217;s name contains the word &#8220;CtxTest&#8221; so I match against it. (Post testing I can remove the pipeline and target everyone).<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\">Get-ChildItem \\\\path\\to\\profiles\\ctxprofiles$\\*.v4 | ?{ $_.Name -match \"CtxTest\" } | %{ \r\n    $DatFile = \"$($_.FullName)\\UPM_Profile\\NTUSER.DAT\"; \r\n    Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green \"Filename $DatFile\"\r\n    Write-Host \"Loading: \" -NoNewline\r\n    REG LOAD HKU\\DefaultUser $DatFile;  \r\n    \r\n    Write-Host \"Importing: \" -NoNewline\r\n    REG IMPORT '\\\\path\\to\\a reg file.reg'\r\n    \r\n    Write-Host \"Unloading: \" -NoNewline\r\n    REG UNLOAD HKU\\DefaultUser\r\n}<\/pre>\n<p>All I do is get the list of folders, and for each of them load the <code>NTUSER.DAT<\/code> file from the correct location (it&#8217;s under a folder called <code>UPM_Profile<\/code> as I am using Citrix UPM). I just use the <code>REG<\/code> commands to load the registry hive, import a registry file, and unload the hive. Easy peasy. No error checking etc. so like I said it&#8217;s not as great a script as it can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I had pointed to a blog post I found wherein the author wrote a script to push registry keys to the NTUSER.DAT profile file of a large number of users. I wanted to try something similar in my own environment and while I didn&#8217;t go with the script I found I made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/citrix\/adding-registry-keys-to-ntuser-dat-for-multiple-users\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adding Registry keys to NTUSER.DAT for multiple users<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[657],"tags":[227,466],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}