{"id":7930,"date":"2026-10-10T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=7930"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:50:15","slug":"how-to-move-policy-manager-server-location-to-other-drive-and-path-from-default-location","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/support-articles\/how-to-move-policy-manager-server-location-to-other-drive-and-path-from-default-location\/","title":{"rendered":"How to move Policy Manager Server location to other drive and path from default location?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How to move WithSecure Policy Manager Server location to other drive and custom path from the default location?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\">To change the location of Policy Manager Server data, you can follow the steps below:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\">\n<ol>\n<li>Stop the Policy Manager Server service (net stop wspms)<\/li>\n<li>Open the Windows Registry Editor (regedit)<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to HKLM\/SOFTWARE\\WithSecure\\Policy Manager\\Policy Manager Server\\<\/li>\n<li>Open ApplicationDataDirectory<\/li>\n<li>Check the path from the <strong>value data <\/strong>and backup the folder<\/li>\n<li>Change the value to the location where you want Policy Manager Server to save the data<\/li>\n<li>Copy the backed up data to the new path which you entered in the ApplicationDataDirectory <strong>value data<\/strong> field<\/li>\n<li>Start the Policy Manager Server service (net start wspms)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\">Now the Policy Manager Server data is saved to the new location.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: start;\">The same move can be done for Policy Manager Console, but the registry path is HKLM\/SOFTWARE\\WithSecure\\Policy Manager\\Policy Manager Console\\<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to move WithSecure Policy Manager Server location to other drive and path from default location?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-7930","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005235","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-10 08:50:15","import_hash":"d45197f112ff38f964f840c22645a0775ba82342","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}