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How can I add a new Administrative Template to an existing (or new) GPO?

In a previous article - Understanding Administrative Templates in GPO - I've described the purpose of the Administrative Templates section in the Windows 2000/XP/2003 GPO. Administrative Templates are a large repository of registry-based changes that can be found in any GPO on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. The Administrative Templates are Unicode-formatted text files with the extension .ADM and are used to create the Administrative Templates portion of the user interface for the GPO Editor.

Although Administrative Templates have virtually hundreds of options within them, there may be times when an administrator will need to add more options to a new or existing GPO.

One method for an administrator to add such extensions to the GPO is by adding new settings to the Administrative Templates sections. This can be done by adding .ADM files to the existing Administrative Templates section in GPO.

Adding .ADM files to the Administrative Templates in a GPO

In order to add additional .ADM files to the existing Administrative Templates section in GPO please follow the next steps:

  1. Open the Group Policy Management Console (or GPMC) from the Administrative Tools folder in the Stat menu, or by typing gpmc.msc in the Run command.

Note: GPMC is not a built-in part of Windows 2000/XP/2003, and needs to be separately installed. You can download GPMC from the following link (Download GPMC), yet remember it can only be used effectively on Windows Server 2003-based Active Directory.

If you do not have GPMC or cannot install it then you'll need to edit the GPO via the regular means, i.e. from Active Directory Users and Computers management tool (dsa.msc).

  1. Right-click an existing GPO (or create an new GPO, then right-click on it) and select Edit.

 

  1. Expand either the Computer settings or Users settings sections of the GPO. Go to the appropriate Administrative Templates section and right-click it. Select Add/Remove Templates.

 

  1. In the Add/Remove Templates window click Add.

 

  1. Browse to the location of the required .ADM file and click Open.

 

  1. In the Add/Remove Templates window notice that the new .ADM file is listed, then click Close.

 

Now re-open the Administrative Templates section and browse to the new settings location.

Disabling GPO settings filtering

Many custom Administrative Templates require you to remove the requirement to show policy settings that can be fully managed in the GPO editor. To do so follow the next steps:

  1. After completing the above procedure, browse to the newly added Administrative Template section.

Note that the section is indeed listed, however in the right-pane is empty.

 

  1. Right-click an empty spot in the right pane and select View > Filtering.

 

  1. In the Filtering window click to un-mark the "Only show policy settings that can be fully managed" option. Then click Ok.

 

  1. Notice how the available options are now displayed in the right pane.

 

You can now configure these options as you please.

 


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