Is there a way to programmatically turn on remote registry?

[Prasad, Ramit]

Kevin Holleran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have written a script to poll some registry values but remote registry is turned off through GPO on the
> network I need to run it against.  The account running the script is an admin on these boxes.  Is there a way
> for me to turn on remote registry for the duration of the script's runtime?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Kevin

No personal experience but the web says you need to enable the remote
registry service[1]. You can start and stop services in Python using
win32serviceutil[2].

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754820.aspx
[2] http://fuzzytolerance.info/using-python-to-manage-windows-services/ 

Ramit Prasad


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