Deploy Registry Keys to Multiple Computers Using BatchPatch

A systems administrator frequently needs to update the Windows Registry of every computer on his/her network. Did you know that you can use BatchPatch to accomplish this task extremely rapidly? BatchPatch provides administrators with a very simple way of getting registry keys to remote computers on a network.

1. Before we do anything please note that if you are going to be deploying a registry key/value to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) hive of the target computer(s), then you need to make sure that your ‘Remote Execution Context‘ is set to ‘Elevated token‘ and not ‘SYSTEM‘. If you are deploying a registry key/value to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) hive of the target computer(s), then your ‘Remote Execution Context‘ can probably be set to either ‘SYSTEM‘ or ‘Elevated token‘. More details here: ‘Remote Execution Context‘
2. Create a .reg file for deployment. To do this you simply launch regedit.exe and highlight the key that you want to deploy to your target computers, and then choose File > Export. The registry editor application will create a .reg file for you. If you look at that reg file in a text editor, you’ll see it contains a line for each value in the key that you are creating/modifying. In the below screenshot you can see a .reg file for a FileZilla configuration that contains a single DWORD value in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\FileZilla key.
    
   

3. Now that you have your .reg file prepared, highlight the hosts in BatchPatch that you want to deploy it to, and select Actions > Deploy software/patch/script/regkey > Create/modify deployment
    
   
4. Browse to the location of your .reg file. After you select the file and click OK, you’ll see that BatchPatch displays the Command to execute:
   regedit.exe /s "yourRegFile.reg"
    
   
5. The last thing you need to do is actually execute the deployment. You can do this by highlighting the hosts you are deploying to, and then select em>Actions > Deploy software/patch/script/regkey > Execute deployment. Upon successful completion of the deployment you should see Exit Code: 0 in the All Messages column.
    
   

Here’s a video demonstration of registry key deployment with BatchPatch: