[gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base addition
- From: "Alan & Margaret" <syspro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:44:59 +1000
Hi Scott,
I found the same problem. I would consider it as a bug since the SupportedOn
attribute is not supposed to be a required field. You can get around it by
adding a SupportedOn entry that is blank.
If you are interested, I have a beta version of my ADM Template editor
program that you can use to do the generation.
It is downloadable from http://www.sysprosoft.com/adm_download.shtml
I would agree with Darren that trying to code an ADMX file from scratch is
very difficult.
Alan Cuthbertson
Policy Management Software (Now with ADMX and Preference support):-
http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir
<http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=pol_summary.shtml>
&f=pol_summary.shtml
ADM Template Editor(Now with ADMX support):-
http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir
<http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=adm_summary.shtml>
&f=adm_summary.shtml
Policy Log Reporter(Free)
http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir
<http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=policyreporter.shtml>
&f=policyreporter.shtml
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From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott Klassen
Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 6:10 AM
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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