The standard .adm files provide a wide variety of settings that control almost every aspect of the registry. With the standard .adm files adding over 1300 policy settings to a default GPO, you have many options. If these .adm files don’t provide enough options, you can import additional .adm files into a GPO to provide control over security, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.

If these .adm files don’t give you all of the settings that you need, you can easily create custom .adm files and import them into existing GPOs. With the flexibility of targeting specific computers and users, the custom .adm files can be very granular in their application. The key to configuring a new .adm file is understanding the language. The administrative template language is not very complex, and you can generate and implement new .adm files in minutes.