Adding registry key during deployment is not working

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As part of deployment we need to add or update windows registry. I have a .reg file which is part of the project and was deployed along with it by tfs build. I have also added a script step to run this file during deployment using the following command:

regedit /s PollerRegistry.reg

Now, Octopus doesn’t show any error and reports it has run the script successfully but I don’t see the registry key if I open the registry editor.

What could be wrong?

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Hi,

regedit is pretty unhelpful when it comes with reporting errors and exit codes, so could I get you to try and use reg import PollerRegistry.reg instead and see if that gives any more information as to why it isn’t working?

Thank you and best regards,
Henrik

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Hi Henrik,

Thank you very much for the quick reply. Yes, your suggestion did shed some light on why it didn’t work.

Primarily there was a file IO error because “regedit” was looking for the PollerRegistry.reg file in the Octopus work folder and it wasn’t there. So I had to get the installation folder from the previous step like below and use that .

$InstallationDirectory  = $OctopusParameters["Octopus.Action[Deploy Service].Output.Package.InstallationDirectoryPath"]
    $RegistryFilePath  = "$($InstallationDirectory)$('\PollerRegistry.reg')"
    Write-Host "$('Running script from:') - $($RegistryFilePath)"
    reg import $RegistryFilePath

Once again, thank you for your quick help.

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Hi,

Great to hear you got it working!

Thank you and best regards,
Henrik