Setting system variable

Hello,

I need to create a new environment variable on approx 50 2000/XP machines on
my network. The system variable (not user variable) is called LANID and
variable value is WRKSTN# . I know of the resource kit utility setx but do
not think that works remotely. Instead of writing 50 batch files like this:

setx lanid wrkstn# -m

(# is taken from the numerical portion of the computer's network name:
SCBOE01...SCBOE02....SCBOE03...and so on)

Does someone know of an easier method?

Thanks in advance,
Aaron

Michael
Fri Aug 22 12:23:52 CDT 2003

Aaron Neunz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to create a new environment variable on approx 50 2000/XP
> machines on my network. The system variable (not user variable) is
> called LANID and variable value is WRKSTN# . I know of the resource
> kit utility setx but do not think that works remotely. Instead of
> writing 50 batch files like this:
>
> setx lanid wrkstn# -m
>
> (# is taken from the numerical portion of the computer's network name:
> SCBOE01...SCBOE02....SCBOE03...and so on)
>
> Does someone know of an easier method?
>


SYSTEM environment variables are named registry values under the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM
\CurrentControlSet
\Control
\Session Manager
\Environment


You could use any number of remote registry tools (such as WMI's StdRegProv)
to write the new named value directly to the registry of each remote client
machine.


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