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Let's dig into the Adam X Files a little bit more and see what they're all about.

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So I've got the C colon backslash window's backslash policy definitions folder up and I took the liberty

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of associating my Adam X extensions with Notepad, so it's easy for me to bring up an admixture file.

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And what you see here is the auto play date end that I showed in my previous slide.

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And it's small and not necessarily something that's intuitive to author, and that's why I recommended

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using an offering tool of some kind.

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But essentially how it works is you have a policy and this is a policy tag.

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It's got a name.

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It's got some strings associated with it.

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And these strings are defined in the ADMA file for the particular language that you're working in.

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And then it's got some explain text.

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Again in the ADMA file, what kind of presentation it uses?

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Is it a checkbox or list box, that sort of thing.

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What key is affected by this policy?

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And you'll see it's one of our four policy keys under current version backslash policies and then it

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if you go down underneath this policy, you've got some more elements and this is the value in the registry

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that's set.

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And then it tells you if the value is set to disabled, then the actual value of the registry is set

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to one.

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If it's set to no auto run underscore XP, then it's set to two.

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And these all mean something.

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The strings correspond to text that's defined in the ADMA file.

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So essentially that's how the ADMA X file works.

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But we can also do is drill into the C and U.S. folder and see all of the ADMA files.

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And if I go in under the autoplay dot ADM and I'm going to tell it, I want to open that with Notepad

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as well.

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You'll see how each of the strings defined in the Adam X file have corresponding text associated with

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them.

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So the various things that you saw in that Adam X file are translated into nice, easy to read text

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within the ADMA file.

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So let's look at how we can create the central store that I mentioned.

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So what I'm going to do, I have my Adam X and ADMA files defined in this Windows policy definitions

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folder on the local machine.

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And I'm going to go ahead and copy all of these files.

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What I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and bring up the Explorer on this PC.

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I happen to be on a Windows Domain controller.

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So I'm going to go ahead and drill into the sizable folder that's shared out assist wall on this Windows

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two main controller.

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And I want to drill into Windows sizeable domain policies because that's where the folder is shared

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from.

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And I'm going to go ahead and create that new policy definitions folder.

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And then I'm going to paste the contents of my local policies definitions folder into this one.

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And now I have a central store.

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That's really all there is to it.

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Now, if I were to go in and reload, PMC, go ahead and run that again and edit this policy and expand

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administrative templates.

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You'll see here, if I highlight the administrative templates node, it says policy definitions are

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being received from the central store.

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And that's telling you that indeed all of my admin template settings or all of my underlying admin templates

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that are building these trees of policy settings are coming from the central store.