As with every new version of Windows, Windows 11 comes with its own set of administrative templates. If you have already upgraded to Windows 11, you can download and install these templates on your PC using the guide given below. Administrative Templates give you more control over your computer, or an entire domain of computers if you are a sysadmin connected to an Active Directory. This allows you to gain more control over each device as you apply more policies. These templates are compatible with the following operating systems:
Windows 11,10, 8, 8.1, and 7.Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012, 2012 R2, 2008 R2.
What’s New in Administrative Templates for Windows 11
ADMX Templates are available for download in the following languages:
cs-CZ Czech – Czech Republicda-DK Danish – Denmarkde-DE German – Germanyel-GR Greek – Greeceen-US English – United Stateses-ES Spanish – Spainfi-FL Finnish – Finlandfr-FR French – Francehu-HU Hungarian – Hungaryit-IT Italian – Italyja-JP Japanese – Japanko-KR Korean – Koreanb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål) – Norwaynl-NL Dutch – The Netherlandspl-PL Polish – Polandpt-BR Portuguese – Brazilpt-PT Portuguese – Portugalru-RU Russian – Russiasv-SE Swedish – Swedentr-TR Turkish – Turkeyzh-CN Chinese – Chinazh-TW Chinese – Taiwan
However, the News and Interests template is currently only available in the English language. Microsoft says that they will republish the templates once more languages are supported for the said template. The following Group Policy settings are added to the OS with these ADMX templates: You can download the complete Group Policy reference from here, or read about the new features here.
Download Administrative Templates for Windows 11 v21H2 & v22H2
There is no need to uninstall any previous version(s) of ADMX files already installed. Simply downloading and installing the new ADMX file will work. Follow the guide below to download and install Administrative templates for Windows 11: You have now successfully installed the ADMX Templates. Head over to Microsoft’s download center to get more information about the Windows 11 Administrative Templates. You may also download Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit that gives security administrators the ability to apply Group Policy Objects via a Domain Controller throughout an enterprise network.
Closing words
This is the first version of the Administrative Templates designed for Windows 11. However, it is backward-compatible with Windows 7 as well. That said, Windows 11 version 22H2 has just been released recently and we anticipate a dedicated ADMX package soon. If you are a regular Windows consumer, installing these ADMX Templates would do you no harm. Rather, if you know what you are doing, this will only assist you to make your device more secure.
