Did you ever wanted to modify your registry or add a key\/value pair to registry? Wished there was a script to help you do that? Even better, wished it can run remotely without PowerShell WinRM listener configured on target server?<\/p>\n
I had custom script that would modify certain registry entry but it was inflexible and in my recent rewrite of another script, I wanted more flexibility. So out of necessity, I decided to rewrite my registry script and made it independent script with lot of flexibility.<\/p>\n
Using this script, you can now run it like this:<\/p>\n
.\\Set-RemoteRegistry.ps1 -Key SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\services\\AudioSrv\\Parameters -Name ServiceDllUnloadOnStop -Value 1 -Type DWord<\/pre>\nIf you want to suppress prompts, you can use \u2013Force parameter like this:<\/p>\n
.\\Set-RemoteRegistry.ps1 -Key SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\services\\AudioSrv\\Parameters -Name ServiceDllUnloadOnStop -Value 0 -Type DWord \u2013Force<\/pre>\nThis script is also a good example of cmdletbinding and support of whatif. I still think use of Whatif in scripts has its limitations as apprarent in this script (without adding more code to it to work around that limitation).<\/p>\n
The script is also a good example of how you can use parameter validation right in the parameter declaration. This way you can avoid if..then code blocks to validate parameter inputs. What a wonderful discovery, I gotta thank PowerShell team for this.<\/p>\n