[RESOLVED] Topic ADMX

Come here to share your tips and tricks for using Samba4
Locked
Eric
Messages: 29
Registration: March 11, 2018 - 08:22

August 29, 2018 - 8:33 PM

Hello,
Our high school infrastructure is operational with 350 machines and 1250 user accounts in roaming profiles.

My question concerns importing ADMX files into our Samba 4.7 servers (using the Tranquil-It package, well done!) with RSAT on Windows 7.

When I import an ADMX file into sysvol/modomaine.eu/policies, it removes the template section that was already set by default. It also removes the "administrative template" from the policy as soon as I create the policyDefinitions directory in the aforementioned path.

I don't understand this because the Samba 4 FAQ states that it works.
Do you have any suggestions? I would like to integrate ADMX files for Firefox and Chrome.

Sincerely,
Thank you
, Eric
User avatar
agauvrit
WAPT Expert
Messages: 238
Registration: Nov 17, 2016 - 10:25
Location: Nantes
Contact :

August 31, 2018 - 11:21

Good morning,

The RSAT client for creating GPOs is "dumb" if it sees ADMX files in:

\\dc-ad\sysvol\mydomain.lan\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\

or the equivalent of the path
/var/lib/samba/sysvol/mondomaine.lan/Policies/PolicyDefinitions
It ignores models installed locally on your administration machine and will only take the central store into account.

Solution : This central repository for defining GPO templates is then complete and allows you to manipulate your existing GPOs for Windows/Office/Firefox etc.

Sincerely,

Alexander
Eric
Messages: 29
Registration: March 11, 2018 - 08:22

September 17, 2018 - 9:01 PM

Hello,
thank you for your reply.

I downloaded various ADMX files as mentioned, especially for Firefox, but it seems that none of the GPOs I added are working. I simply want to set a custom Firefox homepage, and nothing is working.

Thank you for your help,
Eric
User avatar
dcardon
WAPT Expert
Messages: 1930
Registration: June 18, 2014 - 09:58
Location: Saint Sébastien sur Loire
Contact :

September 21, 2018 - 7:18 PM

Hello Eric,
Eric wrote: September 17, 2018 - 9:01 PM Thank you for the reply.

I downloaded various ADMX files as mentioned, especially for Firefox, but it seems that none of the GPOs I added are working. I simply want to set a custom Firefox homepage, and nothing is working.
In this case, you have a GPO application problem, not an ADMX installation problem in PolicyDefinitions. Please open a new thread for that issue. You can start by checking the output of the `gpupdate /force` command.

Sincerely,

Denis
Denis Cardon - Tranquil IT
Share your experiences on WAPT! Send us your blog and article URLs in the "Your Opinion of the forum, and we'll feature them on the WAPT
Locked