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:
- Click Start, click All Programs, click FullArmor, expand FullArmor ADMX Migrator, and then click ADMX Editor.
- Respond to the UAC prompt as required to open ADMX Migrator.
- 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.
In this tutorial:
- Managing the Desktop Environment
- Understanding Group Policy in Windows 7
- Group Policy Before Windows Vista
- Group Policy in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
- New Group Policy Features in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Group Policy Policy Settings in Windows 7
- Understanding ADMX Template Files
- Types of ADMX Template Files
- Local Storage of ADMX Template Files
- Considerations When Working with ADMX Template Files
- Understanding Multiple Local Group Policy
- MLGPOs and Group Policy Processing
- Managing Group Policy
- Adding ADMX Templates to the Store
- Creating and Managing GPOs
- Using Starter GPOs
- Creating and Managing GPOs Using the GPMC
- Creating and Managing GPOs Using Windows PowerShell
- Editing GPOs
- Configuring Policy Settings
- Configuring Preference Items
- Managing MLGPOs
- Migrating ADM Templates to ADMX Format
- Converting ADM Template Files to ADMX Format
- Creating and Editing Custom ADMX Template Files
- Configuring Group Policy Processing
- Using Advanced Group Policy Management
- Troubleshooting Group Policy
- Enabling Debug Logging
- Using Group Policy Log View
- Using GPResult