The Central Store gives you some nice features. First, it gives you a central place for all GP administrators to get their ADMXs from. That way you can control which ones get loaded for a given GPO. 2nd, it gives you a central point of version control, which is not something you had with each GPO storing its own copy of ADMs in pre-Vista days. However, the one downside to the Central Store from my perspective is that, once it exists, all GP editors in the domain will refer to it. That means there is no granularity anymore in terms of which ADMXs appear for a given GPO. So, in the ADM days (you know, long ago, like a month ago :)) you could load one or ten ADMs into a GPO based on your needs. In the ADMX world, once the Central Store is populated, all GPOs in the domain load all ADMXs in the Central Store and you can't change that unless you want to revert back to using ADMs stored in each GPO.
So, good and bad--mostly good I think for most shops. Darren -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lu, WeiMing Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 3:11 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO With Vista ADMX format, is it a better implementation to have central ADMX storage on the DCs? =============================== Weiming Lu Emory College Computing Support (404)727-7917 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 5:13 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO Vista introduces a new Admin Template format called ADMX. These are found on Vista in C:\windows\policydefinitions and, unfortuately cannot be consumed by earlier versions of Windows. That is you must manage Vista GP from Vista. Darren -----Original Message----- From: "Za Vue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: 12/14/2006 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO Sorry. Exactly what Ben wrote. Thanks.. -Z.V. WATSON, BEN wrote: > Maybe he may be referring to the location of any possible new ADM > files included with Vista. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren > Mar-Elia > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:34 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO > > What do you mean Za? I'm not familiar with any GPO plug-in for Win2K3, > unless you mean the LDIF files that are in sources\adprep on the Vista > CD? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Za Vue > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:57 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] Vista GPO > > Anyone know what and where the GPO plugin for Win2003 on the Vista DVD > is called and located? > > -Z.V. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ > > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir@mail.activedir.org/
