Add Ability to Remediate Existential Registry Setting Compliance Items
Currently you cannot auto-remediate a registry compliance item with an existential rule. I should be able to select an option to auto-remediate to have a setting removed much like you can to set a value.

14 comments
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Anonymous commented
I would like to mention you should be able create, modify, or delete registry settings. All would be beneficial.
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Robert Stein commented
This would also apply to removing profiles (such as OneDrive for Business profiles) that are essentially CIs but cannot be removed once deployed.
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Anonymous commented
This seems like an absolute no-brainer and something it would take an afternoon to implement. MS, could you please add this feature?
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Darin Schuette commented
Please add for deleting registry values/keys at a minimum. Should be easy to add, and extremely helpful.
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Calum commented
No votes to add to this but I 100% agree. Functionality to remove items with a CI where they can be added by a CI, as well as remediate only if the item exists, would be a huge help.
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Jonathan Sipek commented
agree with everyone, this needs to happen.
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Brent commented
Ran into another need for this today. Please add this functionality especially for registry keys as it should not be difficult one would think.
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Roger commented
Please add this function
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Ed commented
Microsoft, please add this feature so we can delete unwanted registry keys
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Buster Frith commented
Would be a great feature to have. Sad to see this has been listed for over a year.
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bdam commented
Related, allow remediation if and only if a key/value exists. I'm using a CI to configure Office Channel because we see clients where the GPO doesn't seem to work. In this use case I just want to make sure the value is set to a particular string if it exists. I don't want it creating that value where Office 365 isn't installed nor do I want it to install Office 365 where it's not installed.
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Francois Lacombe commented
It blows my mind that you can easily use built in functionality to auto remediate registry keys to add/modify them, however if you want to remove the added keys, you must use a script instead of simply using remediate with the "must not exist" option.
Please Microsoft, when adding features to do something, also include a way to remove something.
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Stephen Owen commented
If you can create an item with Compliance Items, you should be able to delete it to. This is basic CRUD stuff so let's make it happen
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Jim Hartig commented
Compliance Item's should be able to auto-remediate other objects as well (AD, Assembly, File System, IIS) for existential rule settings that must not exist on the client.