Administrative Templates showcase the flexibility of Group Policy. Rather than being a static bundle of settings that can be changed inside the operating systems, all of the settings that are available inside GPME under the Admin Templates heading are settings that are being pulled from template files. The template files are .ADMX files that reside on your Domain Controller servers.
These ADMX files contain the information that the GPMC needs to display the available configuration settings in a friendly manner. There are primarily three important pieces of information inside ADMX files: the name of the settings, the registry key(s) that the setting is going to modify do its job, and a description for how it should look and ...
