Powershell Update Remote Registry

I never can remember the correct way to remotely examine and update the registry with Powershell. So, for posterity, lets add it here.

The current way to do it is with Get-ItemProperty. This will get the entire registry key object’s properties. More info than we really need. to get just the key’s value, you need to do this. (Get-ItemProperty -path $RegPath -Proptery $Property).$Property

To check if the Registry key exists:

if ( -not (Get-ItemProperty -path $RegPath -Proptery $Property).$Property )   

To check if the Registry key’s value matches:

if ( (Get-ItemProperty -path $RegPath -Proptery $Property).$Property -eq $Value )

To Create the key if it does not exist:

New-ItemProperty -Path $RegPath -Property $Property -PropertyType $Type   

And finally to update the value:

Set-ItemProperty -path $Regpath -Name $Property -Value $Value   

And to do this on a remote registry, wrap it in an Invoke-command statement.

enjoy

Jeff