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Windows 10 or Windows 11 GPO ADMX - Which One To Use For Your Central Store?

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hewagen
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Jan 17, 2022
  Hi community,   My name is Helmut Wagensonner. I’m a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and this blog should help you to understand, which Administrative Templates (admx) to choose for your Windo...
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May 07, 2022

Hi,

 

So this is what I did today. I downloaded the V2 of Windows 10, 21H2 and then I just added the ADMX/ADML from the Windows 11 package where the Windows 11 ones had newer settings I wanted.

I opened both in Notepad++ and did a "Compare". 

I used the grid above to identify any policies I would use like the Chat one for Taskbar and the Register DNS Securely one.

I just copied over the ones that I wanted like DNSClient.admx/adml and the Taskbar.admx/adml that had the newer settings but the older dates.

So I created a folder of the best of each and I used that on my Servers.

They worked just fine and they open fine and I can set the settings and they apply to both our Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers as well as our older Windows 7 ones (Yes we have the extended license for some Hospital Applications that are very expensive)