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Fleex255 / PolicyPlus

Local Group Policy Editor plus more, for all Windows editions
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Imported .pol doesn't seem to change anything? #86

Closed zdat closed 8 months ago

zdat commented 8 months ago

Export the .pol > change 1 policy > import the .pol, and it doesn't revert what I just changed.

Also importing / running the .reg file doesn't seem to change it either, at least as far as Policy Plus shows.

It's the case on 2 machines. Importing the .pol did seem to work some months ago when PolicyPlus was "fresh", but now no. Maybe because it already had a .pol imported to it?

Any help? Thanks.

zdat commented 8 months ago

It seem this only happens when I try to change something from an active state (Enabled or Disabled) > Not Configured.

So basically you can't overwrite "Enabled"/"Disabled" with "Not configured" with a .pol/.reg import. Can this be fixed?

Fleex255 commented 8 months ago

Thanks for determining that only changing to Not Configured does nothing. Due to how Windows POL and REG files work, this is expected. Not Configured is the absence of any value in a Group Policy Object (POL) or the Registry. That is, there is no difference between setting a policy to Not Configured and not choosing a setting for it.

Importing Not Configured policies would be equivalent to totally replacing the target policy object with the imported POL. If that is what you want, you can use File | Edit Raw POL to forget everything in the existing POL before importing the new one.

If you want to semi-automate setting specific policies to Not Configured, please use Semantic Policy (SPOL), which is a more expressive format than Windows POL or REG.