I am currently frustrated:

Before a SW installation I need to modify a specific registry key.

I cannot create a "Configuration Collection" with Regsitry-Config + "Install SW" because There is no "Install SW" in collections. :(

(By the way - why not??)

So I tried pre-deployment action:

I can only CHECK for a key, but I cannot modify it! :(

So I created a batch-script with content:

reg.exe add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration" /v UpdateUrl /t REG_SZ /d "my-test-value" /f

But it does not change the registry key!

There is no error that says that pre-deployment activity failed!

I can run the batch-file on my client and it DOES change the registry correctly.

Why does it not work in pre-install action? :/