Use the General tab of the Configuration Manager 2007 Registry Setting Properties to define your own name and description of this setting, and to define the registry key setting that will be used to assess compliance on client computers.

Important
Configuration Manager 2007 does not support the validation of environment variables (REG_EXPANDSX values) in registry settings. If an environment variable is found in a registry key value, this will be treated as a literal string, and not expanded to its full value.

This tab contains the following elements:

Display name

Specifies the name of the registry key setting you will see in the Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator console.
Description

Specifies the description for the registry key setting. The description should give an overview of the registry key setting and other relevant information that helps identify it among other registry key settings.
Hive

Specifies the hive for the registry key that will be used to assess compliance on client computers. The following values are available:
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

  • HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER

  • HKEY_USERS

  • HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

Key

Specifies the registry key name that will be used to assess compliance on client computers. The format used should be key\subkey.
Value name

Specifies the registry key value name or .Net regular expression that will be used to assess compliance on client computers.
Note
Configuration Manager 2007 does not currently support the detection of blank values in the registry key value name.
The value name is a .Net regular expression

Specifies whether the value entered in the Value name field is a registry value or a .Net regular expression.
Is this registry key associated with a 64-bit application?

Specifies whether the 64-bit registry keys should be searched in addition to the 32-bit registry keys on Configuration Manager 2007 clients running a 64-bit version of Windows.
  • No specifies that only the 32-bit registry keys will be searched on clients running a 32-bit version of Windows or a 64-bit version of Windows.

  • Yes specifies that both the 32-bit and 64-bit registry keys will be searched on clients running a 64-bit version of Windows.

    Note
    It is possible that the same registry key could exist in both the 64-bit and 32-bit registry locations on the same 64-bit computer, which will result in desired configuration management finding multiple registry objects.
OK

Saves the changes and exits the dialog box.
Cancel

Exits the dialog box without saving any changes.
Help

Opens the help topic for this tab of the dialog box.

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