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Enable “Do Not Allow Windows Messenger to be run” group policy using power shell script

I want to perform following tasks on Windows 2008 r2 machine -

1) Enable “Do Not Allow Windows Messenger to be run”. 2) Enable “Do Not Automatically Start Windows Messenger Initially”.

To do this, group policy exists on the following path "Open gpedit.msc >Expand Computer configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows components > Windows Messenger"

Need to do this using PowerShell script. How to do it?

Solution

  • In reality, you can easily control this via the regedit in either:

    HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\

    or

    HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\

    This would work, AFAIK:

    Set-GPRegistryValue -Name "WindowsMessenger" -Key "PathToYourTheKeyYoudNeed" -ValueName "xxx" -Type String -Value "YourValue"

    This also works with

    -type DWORD

    Now, I sadly can not really check, where the necessary keys are located, that you would need to control because I do not have any 2008r2 in my company environment.

    Hope I could help!