Having had to setup and manage a lot of Windows Workgroup clients recently i noticed that without Group Policy this becomes a pain pretty quickly. It is also becoming more common run a Workgroup network as small businesses ditch their servers for cloud services. As an excuse to write some Powershell i wrapped the most common changes i was making into a module ...

Powershell by default provides access to the registry via a PSProvider. Running Get-PSDrive shows this, the namespace HKCU and HKLM are available along with the defaults for the local file system and other locations. As of Powershell 4.0 the registry PSProvider can only access a registry hive that is already loaded into the currently logged on profile, it is not possible ...