[Samba] Updating System Policy Templates/ found admx migrator

Robert Schetterer robert at schetterer.org
Thu Mar 22 23:18:19 GMT 2007


Robert Schetterer schrieb:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Mike Petersen schrieb:
>> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 16:58 +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote:
>>
>>> HI Mike,
>>> creating policies is always welcome,
>>> i dont tried vista adms for now,
>>> cause i dont think most of my customers will switch to it,
>>> the plan is to get totally out of m$.
>> I am in the same boat on a few networks that I maintain.  Most people
>> are sick of Microsoft Products.  If you are interested in testing SLED10
>> on your network(s), I have created quite a few RPMs for SLED10 that
>> fills the gaps of what Novell doesn't provide.  Most of the people that
>> I introduced it to really like it and SLED10 is probably the most
>> network friendly OS out there today (politics aside).
>>
>> You can get my custom RPMs from:
>> http://www.pcc-services.com/sled10_rpms.html
> 
> sled is good , but no need to make marketing for them , samba works
> on other nixes very fine too, and each one has plus and minus points
> one minus of novell is now that they contracted somehow with m$ wihtout
> need.But this is my personal political meaning
> i run suse on my most systems and i will as long as they get not near to
> m$ , but i will stop this if i get the feeling they sold their soul to
> the devil *g
> 
>>> I am nearly sure that adms will work for vista too, cause i dont read
>>> something that vista isnt any longer compatible to nt 4 pdcs ( but i may
>>> fail here )
>> Hopefully I will get more info from the samba list on this.  I
>> especially want info on if people are going to use Vista at all.  I
>> don't want to spend the time on Vista if no one is going to deploy it
>> anyway (I personally won't touch it for any of my networks).
> 
> i am having this partner pack from m$ its very cheap to it includes
> and holds all of their products and a number of licenses,
> so this is fine for testing stuff, vista runs fine in vmware which you
> could download for free.
> I personally will not test vista against samba deeply unless i get paid for
> Its an unwritten law m$ products should not be used on production
> nets before they go to stage service pack 1 with one exception if you
> really need to some new invention included in one product.
> But for vista i dont  this.
> For now it would high the total costs by my customers, by bying new
> hardware, software upgrades and much trouble with dirvers and applications.
> 
>>
>>> Be sure that you dont make work which is allready done
>>> by others, there are few sources of adms on the web.
>>>
>> About 2 years ago I sat down and created a comprehensive custom.adm file
>> that implemented just about any policy anyone wanted for Window XP
>> machines.  Ever since then I apparently became the defacto person on
>> asking system policy questions (get about 2-3 emails a week).  As far as
>> I know no one has spent the time to create IE7 policies or Vista
>> policies yet.  I am going to have time on my hands this summer and I
>> personally will need IE7 policies on my networks, so I am asking a few
>> questions on whether or not I need to add any additional policies to my
>> policy template while I am at it.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, and if you are in need of any weird or interesting
>> policies for your network, now is the time to ask.
> 
> i would be very lucky to have adms for ie7 and vista
> 
> here is a german website which do much of adm stuff, perhaps you should
> get in contact with them
> 
> http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/
> 
> as i see no vista adms
> 
> but for all other oses of m$
> 
> and ie7
> 
> see here
> 
> http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/index.html?/RiLi/Zahlen.htm
> 
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.heise.de/ct/tipps/adms.shtml
> has also adms
> 
> as i just read adms go to a new format called ADMX in vista,
> 
> so it seems this format ist better then the old but not compatible with adm
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/02/Templates/Default.aspx?loc=de
> (give it a try in english too)
> 
> but here they wrote adms will still work on vista if they dont conflict
> with default admx policies, so i have no idea for now how to implement
> this with a current samba pdc, this question should go to samba gurus
> perhaps there is a way to implement policies like active dir does with
> the recent samba ( but i havent read this )
> but i think it must be included in upcoming samba 4 as it should work as
> active dir contoller
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/germany/technet/prodtechnol/windowsvista/library/1494d791-72e1-484b-a67a-22f66fbf9d17.mspx
> 
> -------------snip------------------
>> 
> Sie können ADM-Dateien weiterhin mit der Option Vorlagen
> hinzufügen/entfernen hinzufügen oder entfernen. Für das Hinzufügen oder
> Entfernen von ADMX-Dateien gibt es unter Windows Vista keine
> Schnittstelle. Um ADMX-Dateien hinzuzufügen, kopieren Sie diese einfach
> in den Ordner %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions\ und starten Sie den
> Gruppenrichtlinienobjekteditor neu.
>> 
> Gruppenrichtlinieneinstellungen aus ADMX-Dateien werden unter dem Knoten
> Administrative Vorlagen angezeigt. Einstellungen aus alten ADM-Dateien
> werden unter Klassische Administrative Vorlagen (ADM) angezeigt.
>> 
> Der Gruppenrichtlinienobjekteditor erkennt ADM-Dateien, wenn diese in
> Ihrer Umgebung vorhanden sind. ADM-Dateien, die durch ADMX-Dateien
> ersetzt wurden, werden jedoch ignoriert (diese sind System.adm,
> Inetres.adm, Conf.adm, Wmplayer.adm und Wuau.adm).
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 
> so good Luck
>  	
>> Mike Petersen
>> mgpeter at pcc-services.com
>>
> 
> 
Hi Mike

perhaps this helps too

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0F1EEC3D-10C4-4B5F-9625-97C2F731090C&displaylang=en

its a migrator for old style adms to vist new style admx

-- 
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Best Regards

Robert Schetterer

https://www.schetterer.org
Munich/Bavaria/Germany



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