Mastering Windows Group Policy

Creating or importing new templates

That's right; you can create your own Group Policy settings. As you probably suspect, this is done by creating your own ADMX/ADML files. Again, we will get more hands-on with these template files later in the book. However, there are some important topics to discuss beforehand because it is very possible you will never actually create your own ADMX file, but you very well might utilize an Administrative Template setting that has been built upon an ADMX file created by someone else (such as Microsoft), and you need to remember that those settings could be managed, or they could be unmanaged. One purpose for creating your own template files would be to manipulate settings for a particular software application ...