Saturday, September 19, 2020

Policy Plus - ADMX download suggestion

A Policy Plus user filed an issue today stating that it was not showing many policies. I suggested using Help | Acquire ADMX Files if they were on a Home edition and this brought in all the expected policies. That step is mentioned in the GitHub README, but not all users will see that. So I added a first-run check: if Policy Plus is running on a Home edition and there are several orphaned non-empty categories (which happens if referenced ADMX files are missing), the user will be asked whether they want to download ADMX files. Selecting Yes produces the standard Acquire ADMX Files dialog. This should improve the new-user experience.

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