Microsoft PolicyMaker Registry Extension

Wednesday, 28 March 2007 by Michel Roth

As far as I'm concerned Group Policy is the preferred method to control the configuration of Windows computers and users (registry). This works great, except for all those custom registry keys that you need to configure for those applications that aren't made by Microsoft and don't have a ADM template for it. In these cases you have to make the ADM templates yourself. Although it isn't that hard like I described in this article I wrote, it can be kind of a hassle.

One company that was all over Group Policy and made products to fix the shortcomings of Group Policy, was DesktopStandard. Microsoft however acquired DesktopStandard last year and now they've announced that one of the coolest products, the PolicyMaker Registry Extension, will be incorporated in all future versions of Windows. PolicyMaker Registry Extension is an extremely cool tool which makes it a lot easier to incorporate custom registry settings in Group Policy and allows you use advanced filters op GPOs like IP addresses, hardware specs, file comparisons and lots of other items.

Well in stead of going on and on about it, you should really read this article by Aaron Parker in which he explains exactly what PolicyMaker Registry Extension can do. Recommended reading!