Group Policy Extensions

24th September 2020

Group Policy is great for enforcing settings on a domain or group of users. You can also add extensions to support M$ Office, Chrome etc

extensions come as a set of .admx files. We can even update a Windows 2012r2 domain controller with Windows 10 Policies….but don’t tell management that, tell them the servers need OS updates.

to add this functionality to the domain copy this set of files to \\yourdomain.com\SYSVOL\yourdomain.com\policies\PolicyDefinitions

Their may be a series of directories included for different languages, if you company is English only you can delete those other directories only keeping the en-us directory. Paste the new .ADMX files overtop of the old ones. don’t delete any files as you may have files added from other sources. The Office files will have different names that the Windows ones.

find the extensions for Windows10 here or Google search for the latest 22H2

extensions for Office 2016 and 2019 here or Google search for the Office 365 extensions

extensions for Chrome browser here includes a great option to compare passwords to the haveibeenpwned database!