{"id":172,"date":"2008-11-11T13:29:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T05:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-11-11T13:29:04","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T05:29:04","slug":"office-2003-admx-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/2008\/11\/11\/office-2003-admx-files-172","title":{"rendered":"Office 2003 ADMX Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Cuthbertson over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysprosoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SysPro Software<\/a>\u00a0used his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysprosoft.com\/adm_summary.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">ADM Template Editor<\/a>\u00a0to convert\u00a0the Microsoft Office 2003 ADM&#8217;s to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysprosoft.com\/adm_to_admx.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">ADMX<\/a> format.<\/p>\n<p>Alan posted some interesting notes&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having converted them, we realised there were 11 additional branches created under Admin Templates, so we used our editor tool to move them under a single branch.<\/li>\n<li>Apologies to those wanting non English versions. We could create a new version based on that language, but integrating that in to a new set of adml files is too difficult.<\/li>\n<li>The Office11.admx file contains the &#8220;root&#8221; category. You must therefore load this admx file, plus any others that you want.<\/li>\n<li>We found one &#8220;Bug&#8221; with Microsoft&#8217;s implementation of ADMX files. It does not support a blank valuename. So we had to remove this option under Microsoft Office 2003\/Microsoft Outlook 2003\/Tools | options&#8230;\/Other\/Reminder Options\/More Reminders. We are discussing with Microsoft whether there is a way around this problem. Interestingly, this value is set under \\User\\appevents and so is not a managed policy.<\/li>\n<li>Before rushing in to converting ADM files to ADMX files&#8230; consider whether you really need the policy settings available in all policies. If an ADM file is only used in one Policy, don&#8217;t bother converting it&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Cuthbertson over at SysPro Software\u00a0used his ADM Template Editor\u00a0to convert\u00a0the Microsoft Office 2003 ADM&#8217;s to the new ADMX format. Alan posted some interesting notes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[101,102,100],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-adm-template-editor","tag-convert-adm-to-admx","tag-office-2003-admx-files"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jhouseconsulting.com\/jhouseconsulting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}