Editing a policy

You have limited editing capabilities for any of the default RM policies: you can change a policy name and description, or delete it. You can also create a new policy by cloning any existing policy, editing its properties, and changing its settings, if required.

You can edit the selected policy by doing one or more of the following:

Rename the policy.
Change the policy description.
Change the settings for any of the categories.
Add a custom setting.

For details on how to carry out these tasks, see Related Topics.

To edit a policy

From the left-hand pane, expand Registry Policies, and then expand either Computer Policies or User Policies. You may need to expand folders in the left-hand pane to display the name of the policy you want.
From the left-hand pane, select the policy you want to edit. The Registry Policy window displays the policy's properties: name, description, its categories list and individual settings.
Click each category in turn to display its individual settings.
Click on a setting to be able to change its configuration.
You can change the configuration by enabling or disabling an individual setting or leaving it unconfigured. You do this by using the box displayed to the left of the setting name. The box will be one of the following types:

Standard box: Standard boxes may either be ticked to enable the setting, or cleared to disable the setting.
Tri-state box: clicking the box repeatedly will cycle through three different states. Click here for a description of these three states.

When you have made all the changes, click Save in the Registry Policy window.

Notes

You can clone or export the current version of the policy for safe-keeping before you make your changes.
Any changes you make to a policy are stored but not committed until you click the Save button on the right-hand pane.
To undo changes you have made to a policy, until you click the Save button, click the Revert button. Once you have clicked the Save button, your changes are committed.
To apply a user policy to users, use the RM Management Console, Users option.
As user policies are applied only at log on, the user interface will remain consistent throughout the user’s log on session. When a policy is changed to configure the user interface differently, the change(s) will apply to those users the next time they log on.
To apply a computer policy to computers, use the RM Management Console, Computers option.
When you edit a computer policy that is already applied to computers, the change(s) will apply to those computers the next time they are switched on or rebooted.
As computer policies are applied only at startup, computer behaviour will remain consistent throughout the session. When a policy is changed to configure the computer differently, the change(s) will apply to those computers the next time the computer is switched on or rebooted.
When you save changes to a policy, the previous version of the policy is automatically saved in the folder D:\RMNetwork\RMManage\Type Manager\Backup. To restore a previous version of a policy, you can import it. For more information about how to import a policy, see Related Topics.