Registry objects provide the backbone of Simplify Profiles by allowing administrator to deliver personalized environments with mandatory profiles. These objects define operations on the HKCU or HKLM registry during logon and logoff. The operations supported are Save & Restore, Set, and Delete. These operations are facilitated through the robust and efficient RegSet technology.

Save and Restore - This operation exports specified registry settings to the Simplify database at logoff and imports those saved settings back into the user's profile. Save & Restore operations enable you to replace roaming profiles with mandatory or local profiles without losing any features. Rather, this hybrid solution optimizes logon and logoff performance, nearly-eliminates corruption, ensures securely backed-up user settings.

Set - This operation injects pre-defined registry settings to the user profile during the logon process. The Set operation can be used to lockdown applications (see more), replace Group Policies (see more), or set system and application settings (see more).

Delete - This operation is used to delete settings from a user profile at logon. In complex environments migrating from roaming to mandatory profiles takes weeks or months, and the delete operation enables the administrator to manage and cleanup the large roaming profiles. For example, if the farm has upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 then it would be beneficial to delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\11.0.

The Registry folder has two subfolders, HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Creating a registry object under one of these subfolders defines registry operations for that particular hive.

To perform any registry operation, simply locate the registry key or value you're looking for and right-click on that item to see a menu of available registry operations.  The menu items are case sensitive so if you selected a registry key, only operations applicable to a registry key are shown.

This shows the operations that can be performed on a registry value.

This shows the operations that can be performed on a registry value.

Select the operation you wish to perform and the selected item will turn bold indicating it now has an assigned registry operation.  The State column will now also specify the assigned registry operation.  If the new operation affects any child registry items, they too will now be bold.

Multiple registry operations can be assigned within one registry object.  Thus you can create a new registry object that contains any combination of Save/Restore, Sets, and Delete operations!

Registry Operation defines the type of registry definition. See each sub-topic for a more detailed explanation of the registry operations:

Save/Restore

Set

Delete

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