Install a client with Windows 10 21H2 (important!) operating system and join it to your domain.If you’re ready to upgrade to Windows 11 and this will become your dominating OS version (or it already is), you should copy the Windows 11 ADMX files to your Central Store.īut can you configure new Windows 10 policies if your central store contains the Windows 11 ADMX files? Well, you can! You just need to do this from a separate client. If you plan to stay on Windows 10 for a while, you should choose the Windows 10 ADMX files. Depending on what your future plans are, you should decide which templates fit best. So what to do if you have a mixed environment of both client operating systems? Well, fact is that you can only copy one set of ADMX files to your Active Directory’s Central Store.

The table at the end of this article shows differences between the Win10 and Win11 templates (as of Dec 16, 2021). Once configured your GPOs will work on both operating systems.Īs long as we support Windows 10 it could occur that new Windows 10 features are not reflected in Windows 11 ADMX files and vice versa. This article is only about how to configure a setting, which is missing in one of the templates. They are indentical except very few settings.

I’m a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and this blog should help you to understand, which Administrative Templates (admx) to choose for your Windows 11 / Windows 10 mixed environment.įirst of all let me say that both versions of the ADMX templates mentioned below, can be used with Windows 10 as well as with Windows 11.

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