Group Policy settings are defined in these XML files. The settings catalog in Intune already has many settings that depend on them, and you may import up to 20 of your own or third-party ones, at most 1 MB each and in en-us only, along with matching ADML files.
Also called administrative template file.
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Terms in this definition
- Exclusions
Scopes taken out of a policy assignment; they can only narrow its coverage, never widen it.
- XML
A text-based format for data, used for instance in message bodies.
- Settings catalog
A kind of Intune profile that puts all available settings into a single list you can search. It replaces picking from predefined templates.
- Intune
Microsoft's device management service, once branded Microsoft Endpoint Manager. Its compliance policies are what the compliant-device grant in Conditional Access relies on.
- ADML
The language file paired with an ADMX template, carrying the text that users see. For each ADMX imported into Intune, a single en-us ADML file is accepted.
Related terms
- Administrative Templates
ADMX-based Group Policy settings. Intune lists the built-in ones among the settings catalog's entries; ADMX files that you bring yourself show up as Imported Administrative templates.
- Central store
Every Group Policy editor in a domain sees identical templates when ADMX and ADML files sit in this SYSVOL folder, named PolicyDefinitions.
- Imported Administrative templates
A profile type in Intune, currently in preview, whose settings come from ADML and ADMX files (custom or from other vendors) added through the Import ADMX option.