Plugging in ADMX and ADML templates
Someday, you may find yourself in a position where you are following a setup guide or some article that instructs you to configure certain options inside a GPO. However, when you go and look for those options, they do not exist. How is that possible, if the documentation clearly shows the options existing inside Group Policy? This is the magic of ADMX and ADML files. Many configurations and settings exist inside Group Policy right out of the box, but some technologies build on additional settings or fields inside GPOs that do not exist by default. When this happens, those technologies will include files that can be placed on your domain controller. These files are then imported automatically by Group Policy, and the settings will then appear in the normal GPO editing tools. The trickiest part about doing this is figuring out where the ADMX and ADML files need to reside in order for them to be seen and imported by Group Policy. Let's figure it...