How to do it...

In order to pull settings from an ADMX and ADML file into Group Policy, follow these steps:

  1. Copy the ADMX file into C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions on your domain controller. In my case, the filename is DirectAccess_Connectivity_Assistant_2_0_GP.admx.
  2. Copy the ADML file into C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US on your domain controller. In my case, the filename is DirectAccess_Connectivity_Assistant_2_0_GP.adml:
  1. Now simply open your Group Policy Management Console from inside Server Manager.
  1. Edit the GPO that you want to use with these new settings, and you can see that we have some brand new settings available to us inside ...

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