WMI remote registry

[RobJones]

Hello, I have spent weeks researching how to read/write remote registry values through WMI (StdRegProv). All examples out there are script based. Currently I am able to connect/authenticate to a remote machine, pull standard WMI information like OS, CPU etc.. but reading/writing to the registry seems to be a totally different animal. Has anyone had any experience using WMI with C++ to read/write remote registry values? Thanks in advance, Rob

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[Michel Godfroid]

Your problem may be related to this[^]. Not to be picky, but why don't you connect to the remote registry directly[^]? That's how the registry editor does it. Oh, and if you're trying to access a user hive, it wont work, because it will not be loaded.

[RobJones]

Thanks! I didn't know about that other method of connecting to the registry, I will give that a shot. Thank you, Rob

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[Michel Godfroid]

RobJones wrote:

other method of connecting to the registry

It needs the remote registry service, which is normally active. Just in case you don't know where to look if it fails :-)