Mastering Windows Group Policy

The Central Store

By default, these ADMX and ADML files are stored and managed independently on each machine that interfaces with Group Policy. Basically, anywhere that you launch GPMC is going to pull files from that machine's own hard drive. Let's face it, many of us still log into a Domain Controller every time that we need to modify something inside GPMC, and so if you were to handle the distribution of ADMX/ADML files on your own, you would be looking at the task of copying these files onto the hard drives of each of those servers. Then, combine that with any other administrative workstations you have that are using the RSAT tools in order to launch GPMC from Windows desktop operating systems, and suddenly the easy task of pushing out ...