All the settings and the administrative templates node over GP all are stored in files all currently
supported operating systems store the surgeons and dot a their max files Windows Server 2010 Windows
Server 2003 store the settings in dot HDMI files.
Later in this section you'll learn how to expand the number of Saturns you can configure with administrative
templates by adding additional files containing the settings.
Now what is a GM files traditionally dot Ada and files define the sentence that an administrator can
configure through group policy.
Each successive Windows operating system and service pack has included a newer version of these files.
Their daughter IDM files use their own Markup Language.
Therefore it is difficult to customize them.
The daughter and files are in the system rude the ADA and files include both the servants and the plan
language description.
Therefore overwrite an idea and file in the system all could potentially change the text that you see
when added in a GPO.
Another potential drawback of IDM files is that depending on client version when you create them they
copy into average below and consume about three megabytes of space.
While not enormous this can cause the CIS file folder to become large and can increase replication traffic
with many GPO shows in a domain.
This could lead to what is known as useful bloat with system all taken up several gigabytes of space.
Now some words about a dmx files.
The Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems introduced a new format for displaying registry
based policies sentence Lissette and Sara a standard based Excel file format known as Dirty their max
files.
These new files replace Ada m files.
However you can still use Ada m files in all Windows operating system since Windows Vista and Windows
Server 2008 group policy continues to recognize the custom IDM files that you have in your existing
environment but ignores Ada any Ada and file that dirty their max files have superseded unlike Ada m
files Ada Max files are not stored in individual G behoves the local group policy editor automatically
reads and displays sets from the local Ada Max files store by default Ada Max files are stored in the
windows folder and Paul is the definitions folder but they can be stored in a central location which
you will learn about in the next lesson.
The ADA makes files are language neutral.
The plain language descriptions of the sentence are not part of the ADA.
Max files.
Instead they are stored in language specific Ada and Mal files.
This means that administrators can look at the same GPO and see the policy descriptions in their own
language because they can each use their own language specific Ada AML files.
The ADA AML files are stored in sub folders of the policy definitions folder.
Each language is stored in its own folder.
For example the English US folder stores the English files and the yes dash capital folder stores the
Spanish files by default only the ADA AML language files for the language of the installed operating
system are present.
So that was a brief information about a em Ada.
Max and Ada AML files.
Next up we'll have an overview of the central store and we'll talk about what a central repository for
ADA Max files say is and how to provide this central store.