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I'd like to set a welcome message for all users to see for an information notice, on Windows Server 2003 R2. LegalNoticeCaption and LegalNoticeText are already used for legal reasons, so I'd like to use Welcome regkey as noted here: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/Windows2000/RegistryTips/Miscellaneous/LogonBanner-DisplayingWarningMessage.html

But when I navigate to this regkey path, I do not see any Welcome key. Any ideas?

I've tried adding Welcome with a value of "This is a test" and nothing happened

Zeno
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    Have you tried just creating the key ? –  Mar 11 '15 at 14:35
  • In addition to Andre's suggestion, Server 2003 goes EoL on July 14th of this year, so where ever possible, your efforts should be concentrated on migrating off of Server 2003, and not implementing new features on your 2003 Server(s). – HopelessN00b Mar 11 '15 at 14:37
  • @HopelessN00b The message is about the migration. – Zeno Mar 11 '15 at 14:40
  • @AndréDaniel No, not something I like to just poke on a prod server (and I don't have another 2003 server to test on) – Zeno Mar 11 '15 at 14:40
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    The registry works as a key value store, and the system only accesses the keys it needs and knows about, so there is very little risk to break anything by *creating a new key*. You can even create a key with a random name and value and the system won't care. –  Mar 11 '15 at 14:42
  • @AndréDaniel I gave it a shot, added the key with a value "This is a test". Logging off and back on, it didn't appear. – Zeno Mar 11 '15 at 14:50
  • Yeah so it didn't work, either you need to restart something (not sure how you're gonna do that on a production server) or the key just has no effect on Server 2003. –  Mar 11 '15 at 14:51

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