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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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Jan 19, 2022

hewagen what's also missing in the Windows 11 ADMX is the OS filtering option.

It ends with Windows 10.

 

When you open the GPMC and edit a GPO or local GP Editor you can right click on ADMX templates (in central store or local) and use a very sufficient filter, which has been maintained for decades now.

 

 


Windows 11 is the exception. There's no new OS category for this OS.

 

Can you please ask the team why we cannot filter for Windows 11 anymore if the Windows 11 ADMX introduced OS build specific settings?

 

In practice the central store is used to manage Windows Server and Windows Client OS, no matter the version, starting with XP/2003 or Vista/2008.

 

This should not been changed. The workaround in the blog is not helpful for common management scenarios.

 

Generally admins should not use their own devices to execute management tasks but a seperate host and user dedicated to these elevated tasks.