Saturday, October 22, 2016

Policy Plus - Acquire ADMX Files

The first thing Home users of Policy Plus will need to do is download and install the full set of policy definitions (ADMX files). These are free, but the installer from Microsoft doesn't place them in the PolicyDefinitions folder; the user has to move them there manually. To expedite this process, I added a feature to Policy Plus: Help | Acquire ADMX Files.

This dialog, given a destination directory (defaults to the main PolicyDefinitions folder), downloads that MSI from Microsoft, unpacks it (msiexec /a), and moves the ADMX files along with the current language's ADML files to the destination.


Once it's done, the success message lets the user open the newly downloaded policy definitions.

The changes are live on GitHub.

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