group policy management center
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc726027(v=ws.10).aspx
new features and enhancements
policy management preferences
allow network location awareness
new administrative template files
new policy management categories
preferences
starter group policy objects
comments for GPOs and policy settings
adml files have an xml declaration
a policyDefinitionResources element
a resources element that is subdivided into a stringTable element and a presentationTable element
xml declaration
policyDefinitionsResources
resources (.adml)
stringTable
presentationTable
kinda like that
but really though
an admx file contains two main components
an xml declaration and a policyDefinitions element
group policy uses the xml declaration when validating the file as an xml-based file for example to verify the verify the version and character encoding attributes.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
revision="1.0" scemaVersion="1.0"
xmlns= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
<policyNamespaces>
<target prefix="EasyNomadTravel" namespace="EasynomadTravel.Policies.EasyNomadTravel" />
</PolicyNamespaces>
<resources minRequiredRevision="1.0" />
<categories>
<category name="EasyNomadTravelCompany"
displayName="$(string.EasyNomadTravelCompany)"
explainText="$(string.EasyNomadTravelCompany_Help)" />
</categories>
<policyDefinitions>
and
<?xml version="<placeholder for version number>" encoding="<placeholder for character encoding"?>
<policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance revision="<MajorVerison.MinorVersion>" schemaVersion="<MajorVerison.MinorVersion>" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com.GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions" >
<policyNamespaces> <target> ... </target> <using> ... </using> </policyNamespaces>
<supersededAdm> ... </supersededAdm>
<resources minRequiredRevision="<MajorVersion.MinorVersion>" fallbackCulture="<placeholder for culture/language name>"/> ... </resources>
<supportedOn> <definitions>... </definitions> </supportedOn>
<categories> <category> ... </category> </categories>
<policies> <policy> ... </policy> </policies>
</policyDefinitions>
new features and enhancements
policy management preferences
allow network location awareness
new administrative template files
new policy management categories
preferences
starter group policy objects
comments for GPOs and policy settings
adml files have an xml declaration
a policyDefinitionResources element
a resources element that is subdivided into a stringTable element and a presentationTable element
xml declaration
policyDefinitionsResources
resources (.adml)
stringTable
presentationTable
kinda like that
but really though
an admx file contains two main components
an xml declaration and a policyDefinitions element
group policy uses the xml declaration when validating the file as an xml-based file for example to verify the verify the version and character encoding attributes.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema
xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance
revision="1.0" scemaVersion="1.0"
xmlns= "http://schemas.microsoft.com/GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions">
<policyNamespaces>
<target prefix="EasyNomadTravel" namespace="EasynomadTravel.Policies.EasyNomadTravel" />
</PolicyNamespaces>
<resources minRequiredRevision="1.0" />
<categories>
<category name="EasyNomadTravelCompany"
displayName="$(string.EasyNomadTravelCompany)"
explainText="$(string.EasyNomadTravelCompany_Help)" />
</categories>
<policyDefinitions>
and
<?xml version="<placeholder for version number>" encoding="<placeholder for character encoding"?>
<policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance revision="<MajorVerison.MinorVersion>" schemaVersion="<MajorVerison.MinorVersion>" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com.GroupPolicy/2006/07/PolicyDefinitions" >
<policyNamespaces> <target> ... </target> <using> ... </using> </policyNamespaces>
<supersededAdm> ... </supersededAdm>
<resources minRequiredRevision="<MajorVersion.MinorVersion>" fallbackCulture="<placeholder for culture/language name>"/> ... </resources>
<supportedOn> <definitions>... </definitions> </supportedOn>
<categories> <category> ... </category> </categories>
<policies> <policy> ... </policy> </policies>
</policyDefinitions>