Updating old group policy templates

If any affected Policy settings are configured in your environment, additional testing should be planned before changing the GPOs or applying them to newer versions of Windows.In a previous article – Understanding Administrative Templates in GPO – I’ve described the purpose of the Administrative Templates section in the Windows 2000/XP/2003 GPO.

The Administrative Templates are Unicode-formatted text files with the extension .When you multiply this size by each Policy that SYSVOL contains, you can see that much space is devoted to these templates.For example, for a large corporation with 1200 GPOs in place, the entire SYSVOL folder (where the GPOs are located on each DC) can take up more than 1GB of hard disk space.Hi Everyone, Update October 30, 2017 My name is Kai Ohnesorge and I am working with Microsoft in a position as Premier Field Engineer (PFE) based in Germany.In my job I am confronted with a large amount of GPO topics, one being changes in ADMX templates over the various versions of Windows.