Administrative templates

Group policies allow us to manage computer settings and user settings effectively. However, infrastructure operation requirements are changing frequently. As an example, this can be due to new application versions, new security requirements, new business policy requirements, and more. We know that group policies can be used to manage organization-wide settings, but not all of the requirements will be supported by default. By the time AD DS 2008 was released, it was not possible to have group policies that could manage settings in the Office 2016 application as it didn't exist.

So how can we manage new applications and new OS settings using group policies? Do we need to keep updating Active Directory? No, we don't. We can do this using administrative templates. Application vendors and developers can develop administrative templates and publish them via group policies to customize, manage, and optimize their products and services.

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