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#189257 - 2008-08-25 02:44 PM Need help with environment variables in the registry
Mr_Chicken Mr_Chicken Just in Town Registered: 2008-08-25 Posts: 1	I need to have variables posted into the registry as they are typed vs having the logon script put in what it sees in the fields. Not everyone has rights to these areas in the registry so I would like to make this a perm fix, I would hate to manually put these keys in on 2500+ computers. This is the issue, when charlie logs on to the computer it changes the my computer name to charlie, but when susie logs on to the same computer it keeps the name of charlie. If I could keep the %username% in tact vs having the username plugged into the registry, it would make my life much easier.
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#189261 - 2008-08-25 04:05 PM Re: Need help with environment variables in the registry [Re: Mr_Chicken]
Glenn Barnas Glenn Barnas KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-01-28 Posts: 4402 Loc: New Jersey	If you're referring to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D : LocalizedString value, the default data type is REG_SZ. You need to DELETE that value and then CREATE it as a REG_EXP_SZ so that environment variables are expanded. You can push this out to all systems using a central script with admin rights, and it will automatically use the current user's name if you load it with something like "%USERNAME% on %COMPUTERNAME%". Glenn _________________________ Actually I am a Rocket Scientist! $\:D$
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#189268 - 2008-08-25 08:52 PM

Re: Need help with environment variables in the registry [Re: Glenn Barnas]

Kdyer

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Registered: 2001-01-03
Posts: 6241
Loc: Tigard, OR

Mr_Chicken,

We had to do a similar thing in our Citrix Environment:

Code:

    $envirolocation='HKCU\Environment'
    $temp=ReadValue($envirolocation,'TEMP')
    $tmp=ReadValue($envirolocation,'TMP')
    $tmpvar=Chr(37)+Chr(83)+Chr(121)+Chr(115)+Chr(116)+Chr(101)+Chr(109)+Chr(68)+Chr(114)+Chr(105)+Chr(118)+Chr(101)+Chr(37)
    IF $temp='' OR $temp='N:\TEMP'
       $rc=WriteValue($envirolocation,'TEMP',$tmpvar+'\Temp','REG_EXPAND_SZ')
    ENDIF
    IF $tmp='' OR $tmp='N:\TEMP'
       $rc=WriteValue($envirolocation,'TMP',$tmpvar+'\Temp','REG_EXPAND_SZ')
    ENDIF

    $newtmpval=ReadValue($envirolocation,'TEMP')

    IF %temp%=''
       SET 'TEMP='+$newtmpval
    ENDIF

    IF %tmp%=''
       SET 'TMP='+$newtmpval
    ENDIF

If you need to know what the chr() codes are, go to: http://asciitable.com

HTH,

Kent

Edited by Kdyer (2008-08-25 08:54 PM)

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