win_regedit; binary data

[J Hawkesworth]

Hi,

Does anyone have an example of using win_regedit to set binary data?

I have a hex encoded string from a reg export but so far not found a way to convert it to whatever powershell needs.

Many thanks,

Jon

[J Hawkesworth]

To follow up, it appears you need to convert the incoming data to a byte array.  I have some prototype code that can do this and will tidy up the code and create a pull request to add this when I get the chance.  If anyone else hits this before the PR is available let me know and I'll send you a modified version of win_regedit.

All the best,

Jon

[J Hawkesworth]

It's been a while, but as promised, pull request to fix working with binary registry data here:

 https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/2034

Also integration tests added for win_regedit here: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/15422

I tested against Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 R2 so if anyone has other windows versions they could test against, I'd be very grateful.

Many thanks,

Jon