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Deploying Template Stores per Group Policy

Synopsis​

It is possible to make templates available via group policy

Description​

When trying to share templates across a team, it might be convenient, if everybody had automatic access to those templates without having to do anything.

With the PSModuleDevelopment's Template system, this is actually possible to do, using Group Policy (or DSC, or SCCM).

Deploy the following registry value to the target computer:

Path:  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\WindowsPowerShell\PSFramework\Config\Default
Name:  psmoduledevelopment.template.store.company
Type:  REG_SZ
Value: string:\\server\share\templates

Don't feel like giving the users a choice in this? Change the path to this:

HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsPowerShell\PSFramework\Config\Enforced

There are also per-machine keys available:

HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsPowerShell\PSFramework\Config\Default
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsPowerShell\PSFramework\Config\Enforced

Those have the benefit of requiring elevation for the user to edit directly.

Either way you choose to go, the templates stored in the registered Template Store are automatically available to all affected users.

Configuration System​

This functionality is made possible with the PSFramework Configuration System. See the associated documentation for a more in-depth view into how settings can be managed.