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Updating RFC0041 - PowerShell Core Policy #224

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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions 2-Draft-Accepted/RFC0041-Policy.md
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Expand Up @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Policy settings are used by administrators to centrally manage PowerShell.
| Location | Policy settings | Regular settings |
|--------------|-----------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|
| File section | "PowerShell": { "PolicySettings": {...} } | "PowerShell": { "RegularSettings": {...} } |
| Registry key | Software\Policies\PowerShellCore | Not Applicable |
| Registry key | Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore | Not Applicable |

### Policy settings Setting Fall-Back

Expand All @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Help to transition from Windows PowerShell to PowerShell 7.

For Policy Settings,
each policy should have a `Use Windows PowerShell Policy` which will indicate that the policy should the read from
`SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell` instead of `Software\Policies\PowerShellCore`.
`SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell` instead of `Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore`.
The default in Group Policy is to have no policy, so it would not fall back to Windows PowerShell Policy, or apply PowerShell 7 policy.

### Precedence of applying settings
Expand All @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ Note, this is listed as `Computer, Then User` in [Registry keys and settings](#r

| Scheme | Windows | Unix |
|-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| GPO -> Computer Policy | HKLM\Software\Policies\PowerShellCore | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| GPO -> User Policy | HKCU\Software\Policies\PowerShellCore | %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/powershell.config.json |
| GPO -> Computer Policy | HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| GPO -> User Policy | HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore | %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/powershell.config.json |
| File -> Application-Startup | pwsh -settingsfile `somepath/powershell.config.json` | pwsh -settingsfile `somepath/powershell.config.json` |
| File -> Computer-Wide | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] | [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| File -> User-Wide | %APPDATA%/powershell.config.json | %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/powershell.config.json |
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ Note, this is listed as `User, then Computer` in [Registry keys and settings](#r

| Scheme | Windows | Unix |
|-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| GPO -> User Config | HKCU\Software\PowerShellCore | %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/powershell.config.json |
| GPO -> Computer Config | HKLM\Software\PowerShellCore | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| GPO -> User Config | HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore | %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/powershell.config.json |
| GPO -> Computer Config | HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| File -> Application-Startup | pwsh -settingsfile `somepath/powershell.config.json` | pwsh -settingsfile `somepath/powershell.config.json` |
| File -> User-Wide | %APPDATA%\powershell.config.json | %XDG_CONFIG_HOME%/powershell.config.json |
| File -> Computer-Wide | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] | /opt/Microsoft/powershell/powershell.config.json |
Expand All @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Note, this is listed as `Computer` in [Registry keys and settings](#registry-key

| Scheme | Windows | Unix |
|-----------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------|
| GPO -> Computer Config | HKLM\Software\PowerShellCore | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| GPO -> Computer Config | HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] |
| File -> Application-Startup | pwsh -settingsfile `somepath/powershell.config.json` | pwsh -settingsfile `somepath/powershell.config.json` |
| File -> Computer-Wide | See [Moving configuration out of PSHome][moving] | /opt/Microsoft/powershell/powershell.config.json |

Expand All @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ A set of configuration settings in GPO scheme and file scheme for policy setting

Notes:

- All policies are in `Software\Policies\PowerShellCore`.
- All policies are in `Software\Policies\Microsoft\PowerShellCore`.
- `ExecutionPolicy` is not in any SubKey.

| SubKey | Option | Type | Precedence |
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