hello Darren, So does this mean that win 2k3 Sp1 supports the admx files already? Will these now appear or replace the existing adm files on the DC? What if the next administrator connects from an XP SP2 box- will both adm and admx files show up when we look at the list of administrative templates? Omar _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:59 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: GPO Processing in VISTA - the whole new can of worms....no adms, now just admx files Mark- The bottom line is that you should not have to recreate any GPOs once Vista hits. The ADMXs that ship with Vista are a super-set of the current ADMs and support all of the XP and 2003 (and Win2K) settings in addition to the new Vista ones. Now, in terms of things like logon scripts, if the scripts are targeted at a particular OS version, then you would either need to test for OS version in your script or have separate GPOs that are filtered by OS version (or security group). But that is not inherent in the Vista changes--that's just a function of what you're trying to do. BTW, in case anyone is interested and is planning on attending, I'm doing a session at the upcoming WinConnections show in Vegas in November on managing GP in a Vista world. Darren _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mills, Mark Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 1:07 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] GPO Processing in VISTA - the whole new can of worms....no adms, now just admx files My question: Do I have to create a duplication of every Windows 2003 policy used for my WinXP Clients and place it in the new "Central Store" used by Vista Clients for Group Policies. (The "Central Store" is a new directory you have to manually create on your domain controller at %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions, which also has a subfolder "en-us) I was successfully able to create the new "Central Store" and copied the new .ADMX files over to it from my VISTA RC1 pc. (note- Vista does not use .ADM files) Since all VISTA clients now have the Group Policy Management Editor installed by default I fired up GPMC.msc on my Vista RC1 pc, at which point it automatically connects to the Primary Domain Controller of a domain. I had created a new OU called Vista Test, with sub OU's of Vista User, and Vista Computer. Since most of my Win2k3 \ WinXP Group policies would not work correctly on the VISTA pc I created a new "User -Mapped drives- Logon script" Group Policy Object (using the same logon script that I currently use for my 2003\XP environment) and applied it to the "Vista User" OU, I then created a new "user - Assign Printers to specific computers" Group Policy that uses loop back processing and applied it to the Vista Computer OU. Now my Vista Box and its associated user get both the mapped drives and assigned printers. Bottom line is that I had to re-create 2 existing GPO's. Do I have to recreate all GPO's for any future Vista clients? Is there any problem with 1)linking a GPO for mapping drives on a XP PC and also 2) linking a GPO for mapping drives on a Vista PC.TO THE SAME OU? Because I don't plan on creating separate OU's exclusively for Vista pc's. If you haven't heard about the changes in Vista Group Policy you may want to review: Microsoft's Step by Step Guide for Vista Group Policy: (this is a must read! Do it now if you administer GP) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/1494d791-72e1-484b-a67 a-22f66fbf9d17.mspx Lab walk through of setting up Vista Group Policy http://203.147.133.54/chass/hol/CLIHOL206.pdf Mark Mills