The Impact Of Updating Administrative Templates Of ActiveDirectory

Question

I'm currently planning to deploy Windows Hello for Business settings using Group Policy Objects (GPO). However, upon checking the Group Policy in our current Active Directory environment, I found that there aren't enough administrative templates available. Therefore, I'm considering installing new administrative templates from the website linked below.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/group-policy/create-and-manage-central-store

I'd like to confirm the impact of installing administrative templates. Currently, I'm considering updating the administrative templates by placing them in the central store under "Sysvol."

If "PolicyDefinitions" already exists under "Sysvol>....Policies" due to a previous administrative template update, can I simply overwrite it after backing up the existing "PolicyDefinitions" to another folder?

Also, if I overwrite it, will there be any issues such as the assignment of currently applied policies being removed?

Answer 1

Hello,

The impact will be the same if you have or don't have a central store :

• Updated version of admx mean that parameters are added but also some are removed. This mean that when you edit a GPO removed parameters won't show in the interface but this does not mean that they are removed from the GPO

As you stated you should do a backup before if you want to modify some settings that are not present in the newest version

Regards,