I recently had a situation where I was unable to manage Office Communicator Group Policy settings – some of the settings now appeared as Extra Registry Settings in the Group Policy Management console. This seemed to happen around the time that I had upgraded the ADM template to the Office Communicator 2007 R2 ADM template released in January 2010, so I can only assume that some of these settings have been depreciated or superseded.
Unmanagable settings
I was particularly concerned about one setting – software\policies\microsoft\communicator\ServerAddress – even though I could no longer manage this settings, the Office Communicator client still used the value in the setting for its configuration! I wanted to manage this setting, so I created a ADM template to manage a few of the unmanageable settings – here it is for your reference:
CLASS USER
CATEGORY "Shared UC Settings"
KEYNAME Software\Microsoft\Shared\UcClient
POLICY ServerAddressInternal
EXPLAIN "Controls the Software\Microsoft\Shared\UcClient\ServerAddressInternal registry value"
PART ServerAddressInternal EDITTEXT
VALUENAME "ServerAddressInternal"
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
CATEGORY "Communicator Settings"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
POLICY ServerAddress
EXPLAIN "Controls the HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator\ServerAddress registry value"
PART ServerAddress EDITTEXT
VALUENAME "ServerAddress"
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
CLASS MACHINE
CATEGORY "Communicator Settings"
KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator
POLICY ServerAddress
EXPLAIN "Controls the HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator\ServerAddress registry value"
PART ServerAddress EDITTEXT
VALUENAME "ServerAddress"
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
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