Re: Adding new ADM templates to Group Policy Edito

Ha. Mostly because the Office product group does whatever they want, whenever they want :-). Witness how they broke GPSI installation of Office 2007.

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"G Johansson" <fantomen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:872B4C37-8AA3-4A2E-BD7F-EFE58750BC30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Since MS released the admx-format I don't really want to use the old adm-format. :-S
I can't understand why they didn't create admx-files for Office 2007 for example...

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"Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum123@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OYpTUiGBIHA.5752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
if you are more than one admin, you would keep a unique storage reference location for ADM, so to always use the same ADM Version, that you edit from vista, XP, or DC directly.

I will try with my vista to get a recent picture ;)

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"G Johansson" <fantomen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OTUXLeGBIHA.1208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
True

Unless you are using Vista since Vista won't add the adm-files to the GPO at SYSVOL and therefore it gives you all adm-files in your local inf-folder automatically when you create a new GPO.

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"Mathieu CHATEAU" <gollum123@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ON2xYzFBIHA.2268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
again, overloading GPO with unused ADM is bad.
You would remove them on GPO if they are present but not used (and WSUS too for example).
The less, the better

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"G Johansson" <fantomen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eJCx8UFBIHA.4752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maybe we mean two different things.

If I for example download all Office 2007 adm-files and put them in C:\Windows\Inf and I open a new GPO I can see all these settings automatically added into Administrative Templates\Classic Administrative Templates (ADM) without needing to add them manually as I would need in XP.

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"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OkWe4QEBIHA.4836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Actually, ADM files in Vista are not automatically added--only ADMX files are--but that's beside the issue :)

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"G Johansson" <fantomen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OdhmRJ3AIHA.2268@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If you would be using Vista then all adm-files would be automaticaly added into your GPO's. Pre-Vista machines you need to add them yourself...

But I'm not understanding why you would like to add the adm-files for Office 12 into all your GPO's

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"NZSchoolTech" <nzschooltech@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eugAxCyAIHA.4836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently obtained the ADM files for Office 2003 and Office 2007 and want to use them to deploy to all users via Active Directory Users and Computers. However, the only instructions I can find for adding these templates to the Group Policy Editor are to open a GPO and then right click Administrative Templates to get to the Add/Remove dialog.

When I followed this the new settings were available in the GPE, but only for the GPO I had open at the time.

I want to be able to put in the new ADM files so that the settings are accessible for all the GPOs in the domain but it seems the only way to do this is to open up every GPO and then add the templates to it. Is there a way to make these template available to all my GPOs so I don't have to add them to every one.

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