Mastering Windows Group Policy

Creating the Central Store

Creating the Central Store is a very easy process and is something you can accomplish from any Domain Controller in your environment. Simply create two new folders inside your SYSVOL catalog, and the next time that any GPMC inside your environment opens up, it will automatically check for the existence of these folders. Once discovered that the folders exist, GPMC will automatically pull any ADMX and ADML files from this SYSVOL location into their local Group Policy Editor.

When you're logged into a Domain Controller, create the following PolicyDefinitions folder for ADMX files:

%systemroot%\SYSVOL\sysvol\mydomain.local\Policies\PolicyDefinitions

Create accompanying language folders for each language you want ...