Re: Remove ADM Files from the Sysvol Folder - how ?

From: Darren Mar-Elia (dmanonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/26/04

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    As far as I understand it, that policy,"Always Use Local ADM Files for Group
    Policy Editor", only works if you are editing the GPOs from Server 2003
    itself. You can confirm this by looking at the explain text on that
    policy--it says 2003 is the minimum version supported. That means that XP
    just ignores the policy and goes looking for the ADMs in SYSVOL as normal.
    Kind of stupid really, but they didn't back-port this policy to SP2. This
    means that if you really want to use this feature, you have to do all of
    your GP editing from a 2003 machine. 

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Darren Mar-Elia
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"Rytis" <nospam@somewhere.com> wrote in message 
news:1101471705.663641@nettrafmon...
>I am trying to remove adm files from the sysvol folder in a Windows 2003 
>domain enviroment, but it is not working.
> I have applied GPO`s, which are listed in the 816662 KB article, to the 
> user which will edit GPO and to the workstation which he uses.
> All adm files resides in windows\inf folder (it`s a Windows XP SP2 PC). 
> But when he opens GPO with GPMC, "Administrative Templates" are empty - 
> GPMC likely is not uses local adm files, which are on the administrative 
> workstation.
> If I add adm files manualy, they goes to Sysvol folder again. And I can`t 
> understant why? As I mentioned before, "Turn Off Automatic Updates of ADM 
> Files" and "Always Use Local ADM Files for Group Policy Editor" GPOs are 
> enabled.
> What I did wrong?
> Maybe I should applyy these GPO to the domain controllers?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
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