Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

Chapter 14. Customizing Administrative Templates

In this chapter:
What Is an Administrative Template?
Creating Custom .adm Files
A Simple .adm File
Using .adm File Language
Best Practices
Summary

Microsoft^® Windows Server^™ 2003 uses administrative templates within Group Policy for configuring registry settings. With the release of Windows Server 2003 SP1, more than 1300 default settings are specified by the administrative templates in a new Group Policy object (GPO). Even so, you will want to customize numerous settings through your own administrative templates.

In this chapter, we will look closely at administrative templates. We will describe how administrative templates are used to create the interface within a GPO, and we will explain how the administrative ...