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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

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 :

• Download the latest Windows ADMX templates: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/downloa ... x?id=55080
• Download the latest Office ADMX templates: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downloa ... x?id=49030
• Download ADMX templates for other products: https://getadmx.com/
• "Install"/extract them locally on your computer
• Copy and paste them into your folder \\dc-ad\sysvol\mydomain.lan\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\, excluding the languages ​​you are not interested in
• Add the ADMX files for Firefox 60 ESR and Google Chrome

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

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

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