1.6 Applicability Statement

Group Policy: Registry Extension Encoding is only applicable within the Group Policy: Core Protocol framework. Group Policy: Registry Extension Encoding is used to express the required state of the client. However, it is not used to express intentions that are sensitive in an information disclosure context because the metadata transmitted by the protocol is not encrypted. For example, an administrator is not to use this protocol to transmit a password needed by the client to access a resource, because that password is unencrypted during transmission and can be easily intercepted by an unauthorized user, thus compromising the resource.

This protocol is also only applicable when the requirement is for many clients to get the same settings. To configure individual clients with custom settings, the Windows Remote Registry Protocol can be used instead. For more information, see [MS-RRP].