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Always use local ADM files for Group Policy Object Editor

Requirements: At least Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Location: Computer Configuration\System\Group Policy\


Description:
Always use local ADM files for the Group Policy snap-in.

By default, when you edit a Group Policy object (GPO) using the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in, the ADM files are loaded from that GPO into the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in. This enables you to use the same version of the ADM files that were used to create the GPO while editing this GPO.

This leads to the following behavior:

- If you originally created the GPO with, for example, an English system, the GPO contains English ADM files.

- If you later edit the GPO from a different-language system, you get the English ADM files as they were in the GPO.

You can change this behavior by using this setting.

If you enable this setting, the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in always uses local ADM files in your %windir%\inf directory when editing GPOs.

This leads to the following behavior:

- If you had originally created the GPO with an English system, and then you edit the GPO with a Japanese system, the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in uses the local Japanese ADM files, and you see the text in Japanese under Administrative Templates.

If you disable or do not configure this setting, the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in always loads all ADM files from the actual GPO.

Note

ADM File: system.adm