[gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base addition
- From: "Darren Mar-Elia" <darren@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:19:34 -0700
Yes, in fact that is what I do in my custom ADMX for GPO Logging. A single
ADMX with multiple settings under a new category.
I haven't too many problems with the FA tool, but then again, I'm not using
it extensively.
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of SCOTT KLASSEN
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:13 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base addition
There is of course one other workaround to the duplicate nodes issue when a
custom category is used ... put all custom settings into a single ADMX/ADML.
The issue only occurs when multiple ADMX files reference a custom category
without it being defined in a custom base admx/adml.
The more I use the FullArmor tool, the more issues I find. With 1.2, it
seems every adm I convert, the settings get created as Value Lists, even
simple ones with a single value enable/disable, which should be created as
Values. 1.2 strikes me as more of a 0.7 beta.
Scott Klassen
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From: darren@xxxxxxxxxx
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base addition
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:47:39 -0700
Hmm. Interesting. If I get some time, I'll try to dig in.
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klassen
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:10 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base addition
Thanks Darren for the quick reply.
I am actually using the Migrator/Editor tool to an extent, but hand editing
after the fact to make a few changes, such as changing the category and
policy ID's to make them more user friendly and readable.
The tool doesn't seem to be able to reference custom base category files,
only the default built-in ones, so I'm stuck doing some manual editing here
as well. I'll keep massaging this until I get it to work or set it aside
and just cope with the duplicate nodes.
For anyone who cares, I contacted FullArmor about that issue in version 1.2
where the MMC crashes if you click on the Values tab and the response was
they are working on it for the next release. They recommended reverting
back to the 1.0 version for now (or you can manually add this section to an
ADMX file to avoid this issue).
Scott Klassen
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:20 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base addition
Scott-
What I would recommend, frankly, is to use Microsoft's Free ADMX Editor,
that comes with the ADMX Migrator. It makes creating ADMX files much simpler
than doing it by hand. I, personally, have not undertaken manual authoring
of ADMX files since this tool came out. Its also been updated since the
initial release to fix some issues people had.
You can get it at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0F1EEC3D-10C4-4B5F-
9625-97C2F731090C
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0F1EEC3D-10C4-4B5F
-9625-97C2F731090C&displaylang=en> &displaylang=en
Darren
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klassen
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:14 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] ADMX custom base addition
I'm going to create some custom ADMX templates. I'd like them to all show
up under a new category (called Custom) in Policies>Administrative
Templates. Following the ADMX Syntax Reference Guide, I've found that if I
set the new category in each individual ADMX, I'll wind up with duplicate
nodes. The recommendation is to create a new Base ADMX file to define this
new Custom category, then reference the base from new ADMX policy files.
Following the code snippets in the Syntax Guide, I've attempted to create
the new base and reference it from the example2 admx file, but the new
category doesn't show up and I get errors about SupportedOn being undefined.
Does anyone here happen to have a working example of a custom base and an
admx policy file that references it I could take a look at?
Thanks,
Scott Klassen
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