What does [[[Create Key]]] and [[[Delete Key]]] mean in Group Policy analyzer

Luis Gonzales 1 Reputation point
2021-09-15T20:33:28.537+00:00

I am working with The group policy analyzer and have been able to compare all the policies in the enterprise. but I have some rows with the setting of [[[Delete key]]] and [[[Create Key]]]. Did some searching, but have not been able to come up with a definitive reason as to why the fields are being populated. Anyone know what they mean?

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  1. Limitless Technology 39,921 Reputation points
    2021-09-16T13:48:57.22+00:00

    Hi there,

    Policy Analyzer lets you treat a set of GPOs as a single unit thus making it easier to determine whether particular settings are duplicated across the GPOs or are set to conflict values. usually, it has policy group, type, settings, local registry, etc, but what you have indicated is new in Column & row. Can you add the image for clarification which would be helpful for the community to find it out.

    Hope this answers all your queries, if not please do repost back.
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  2. Luis Gonzales 1 Reputation point
    2021-09-16T16:01:11.833+00:00

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  3. Urs Egli 1 Reputation point
    2022-11-14T08:32:44.137+00:00

    Interesting question, has anybody an answer

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  4. Aaron Margosis 26 Reputation points
    2025-06-23T23:29:23.0966667+00:00

    Sorry it took years for me to stumble across this question.

    What those triple-bracketed items mean is that when the policy is applied, it performs that action, such as creating a key (but not necessarily putting any values into it), deleting a value if it is present, or deleting all the values in a key (often right before creating a set of registry values representing list values).

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