Re: GPO Template Versions
From: Mark Renoden [MSFT] (markreno_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/29/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:17:54 +1000
Hi Adrian
New .adm files are generally provided in service packs. To give you some
background:
When you create a GPO, the .adm files being used are copied from the local
%windir%\inf folder to SYSVOL (inside a GUID folder for the GPO).
When you edit a GPO, the default behaviour is to update the .adm file from
the local %windir%\inf folder if the local copy has a later time stamp than
the one in SYSVOL for that GPO. This has caused issues for some in the past
because (for example) the Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 .adm files would have
a later timestamp than the Windows XP .adm files. As a result, the .adm
file in SYSVOL does not contain Windows XP specific settings. In an effort
to resolve this issue, I believe future Service Pack .adm files will contain
all policy settings regardless of operating system.
Until the next generation of Service Packs, this issue in Windows 2000
Server / Windows XP client environments, can be prevented by:
A. Creating and editing all GPO's with Windows XP.
B. Enabling the following policy setting at the Domain level:
User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Group
Policy -> Disable automatic update of ADM files
Lastly, a complete set of current and previously shipped adm files included
by default in Windows operating system and service pack releases, beginning
with Windows 2000 can be found at:
A complete reference of group policy settings for Windows Server 2003:
Kind regards
-- Mark Renoden [MSFT] Windows Platform Support Team Email: markreno@online.microsoft.com Please note you'll need to strip ".online" from my email address to email me; I'll post a response back to the group. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "Adrian Marsh" <hidden@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:%23RyzL4bdEHA.1656@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... > All, > > I've installed W2K AS from a slipstreamed SP4 CD. I've been reading up > on active directory on google and these groups, and I think that there may > newer versions of the Administration Templates available, than the ones I > have. So 3 questions: > > 1) Are there? (> SP4?) > 2) If there are, then how do I "upgrade" ? Just copy the new adm files > over the old, or do I have to re-create all my GPO templates ? > 3) Would they automatically include XP ? > > Adrian > > P.S. Reading up, I've seen references where AD seems to automatically > "upgrade" is - say - an XP box gets added to the domain - is my > understanding right??
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