I second Jamie's recommendation. Since you are missing some of the relevant ADM templates, I think you should dump the contents of the registry.pol file to text where you can see all of the settings at once and compare to the report from the GPMC (especially the section showing miscellaneous registry entries)--besides, this will make it easier to re-create any of the ADM templates you might want. The downside, of course, is that you'll be missing anything that had been in the original "Explain" tabs on those settings. If you have any questionable settings, compare to the MS provided GPO Registry settings spreadsheet (latest date 3/9/2008): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2043b94e-66cd-4b91-9e0f-68363245c495&displaylang=en Note: Entries in the registry.pol file can not only come from the Administrative templates, but also from a few other areas in the GPO Editor (e.g. Certificates, etc.). So to make sure you have everything documented that you want, use the following steps to dump the data directory from each Registry.pol file you want: Copy the registry.pol file to your local workstation (say...to the root of the C: drive) Open a CMD shell (Start | Run | cmd | OK) Enter: regview registry.pol > temp.txt [Enter] Enter: Notepad temp.txt Jerry -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nelson, Jamie R Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:18 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Registry.pol If you know what registry keys you're looking for, then why don't you just recreate the ADM manually and set them back to not configured? Jamie Nelson | Systems Engineer | Systems Support, Information Technology | I N T E G R I S Health | Phone 405.552.0903 | Fax 405.553.5687 | http://www.integrisok.com -----Original Message----- From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jfvanmeter@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 6:15 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Nate Bahta Subject: [gptalk] Re: Registry.pol This is not free you can use the 30 day demo registry workshop http://registry-workshop.torchsoft.qarchive.org/ if you need to buy it I think it only cost 30.00 dollars Take Care --John -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Nate Bahta <nathaniel.bahta@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hey all, > > Anyone know a good (free) way to edit the registry.pol file from a > gpo? There are some settings in a gpo of ours that we no longer have > the ADM template for and I need to strip them out and recreate the adm > template, so first I want to strip them out of the registry.pol file. > > Thanks, > > Nate This e-mail may contain identifiable health information that is subject to protection under state and federal law. This information is intended to be for the use of the individual named above. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be punishable by law. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify us immediately by electronic mail (reply). *********************** You can unsubscribe from gptalk by sending email to gptalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the freelists.org Web interface. Archives for the list are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/gptalk/ ************************