How to get the last Group Policies Objects in a Active Directory environment

Get the last policies

First we have to get the last policies.

To get them, we have the choice to :

• Download the Administrative Templates pack from the Microsoft website : https://support.microsoft.com
• Or from any recent Windows operating system, get a copy of the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder.

Copy policies to SYSVOL folder

To create our Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates, we need, from a Active Directory Domain Controller to copy the PolicyDefinitions folder (which includes the .admx (policies files) and .adml (languages files) files to \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\ (or C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\domain.local\Policies).

Check

From the Group Policy Management Console we can now see that we use the Central Store.

If there is no Central Store (no \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\PolicyDefinitions folder) the Policies will be loaded from the local computer (our Active Directory server).