3.1.1 Abstract Data Model

This section describes a conceptual model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to facilitate the explanation of how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with that described in this document.

The EFS Group Policy administrative plug-in relies on a collection of settings specified in section 2.2 and stored as a Unicode configuration file ([MS-GPREG] section 2.2) at a remote storage location using the Group Policy: Core Protocol. The administrative plug-in treats these settings merely as a collection of name-value pairs.

The EFS Group Policy administrative plug-in reads in these settings from the remote storage location and displays them to an administrator through a UI.

An administrator can then use the UI to make further configuration changes and the EFS Group Policy administrative plug-in will make corresponding changes to the name-value pairs stored in the aforementioned Unicode configuration file.

This conceptual data can be implemented using a variety of techniques. An implementation can implement such data using any method.<10>

This protocol also includes one ADM element, Administered GPO (Public), which is directly accessed from the Group Policy: Core Protocol, as specified in [MS-GPOL] section 3.3.1.3.