Thanks Alan, I'll take a look at the beta editor. Scott Klassen From: syspro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [gptalk] Re: ADMX custom base additionDate: 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&f=pol_summary.shtml ADM Template Editor(Now with ADMX support):- http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=adm_summary.shtml Policy Log Reporter(Free) http://www.sysprosoft.com/index.php?ref=activedir&f=policyreporter.shtml From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott KlassenSent: Tuesday, 15 July 2008 6:10 AMTo: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [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-EliaSent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:20 PMTo: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [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&displaylang=en Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott KlassenSent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:14 AMTo: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [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