Administrative templates

Question

Describe administrative templates?

Answer 1

The GPO settings are divided amongst the Computer settings and the User settings. In both of the parts of the GPO you can clearly see a large section called Administrative Templates.

Administrative Templates are large repository of registry-based changes (actually, over 1300 individual settings) which can be found in any GPO on Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

Using the Administrative Template sections of the GPO you may deploy modifications to machine (called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry) and user (called HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry) portions of the Registry of computers which are influenced through the GPO.