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Creating and Editing Custom ADMX Template Files

You can create new ADMX template files and modify existing ones by using ADMX Migrator. Follow these steps:

  1. Click Start, click All Programs, click FullArmor, expand FullArmor ADMX Migrator, and then click ADMX Editor.
  2. Respond to the UAC prompt as required to open ADMX Migrator.
  3. Right-click the ADMX Templates node under the root node and select one of the following:
    • Select New Template to create a new ADMX template file. After you create this file, you can right-click this template and select New Category to add categories of policy settings. After you add categories, you can right-click these categories and select New Policy Setting to define new registry-based policy settings. Type a descriptive name, a full path to the registry key, and a default value (optional) for the key.
    • Select Load Template to open an existing ADMX template file for editing. After you open the file, you can add or delete categories and policy settings as desired.

Warning Do not modify the default ADMX template files included with Windows 7.

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In this tutorial:

  1. Managing the Desktop Environment
  2. Understanding Group Policy in Windows 7
  3. Group Policy Before Windows Vista
  4. Group Policy in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
  5. New Group Policy Features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
  6. Group Policy Policy Settings in Windows 7
  7. Understanding ADMX Template Files
  8. Types of ADMX Template Files
  9. Local Storage of ADMX Template Files
  10. Considerations When Working with ADMX Template Files
  11. Understanding Multiple Local Group Policy
  12. MLGPOs and Group Policy Processing
  13. Managing Group Policy
  14. Adding ADMX Templates to the Store
  15. Creating and Managing GPOs
  16. Using Starter GPOs
  17. Creating and Managing GPOs Using the GPMC
  18. Creating and Managing GPOs Using Windows PowerShell
  19. Editing GPOs
  20. Configuring Policy Settings
  21. Configuring Preference Items
  22. Managing MLGPOs
  23. Migrating ADM Templates to ADMX Format
  24. Converting ADM Template Files to ADMX Format
  25. Creating and Editing Custom ADMX Template Files
  26. Configuring Group Policy Processing
  27. Using Advanced Group Policy Management
  28. Troubleshooting Group Policy
  29. Enabling Debug Logging
  30. Using Group Policy Log View
  31. Using GPResult