Office Administrative Template / Group Policy

By | December 17, 2015

32bit / 64bit refers to the architecture of the Office, not the Operating System.

Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization To

Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool 32bit

Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool 64bit

Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool

Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool 32bit

Office 2016 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool 64bit

 

Download the relevant files and run it, it’ll decompress to a location of your choice.

If using the templates in a domain enviroment (highly likely?) the navigate your way to \\YOURDOMAIN.LOCAL\SYSVOL\YOURDOMAIN.LOCAL\Policies. If a PolicyDefinitions directory doesn’t already exist, create it.

Copy the admx\*.admx files to \\YOURDOMAIN.LOCAL\SYSVOL\YOURDOMAIN.LOCAL\Policies\PolicyDefinitions

Copy the admx\en-us to \\YOURDOMAIN.LOCAL\SYSVOL\YOURDOMAIN.LOCAL\Policies\PolicyDefinitions

Open GPMC and navigate to User Configuration -> Polices -> Administrative Templates

Examples…

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