Would you like to learn how to delete group policies administrative templates on Windows? In this tutorial, we will show you how to delete ADMX files on a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7
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Tutorial GPO - Delete group policies administrative templates
On the domain controller, start an elevated command prompt.
Access the Policy definitions directory and delete the ADMX file.
Access the correct language subdirectory.
Delete the ADML file from the correct language directory inside the Policy definitions.
On the domain controller, open the group policy management tool.
Create a new group policy.
Enter a name for the new group policy.
In our example, the new GPO was named: MY-GPO.
On the Group Policy Management screen, expand the folder named Group Policy Objects.
Right-click your new Group Policy Object and select the Edit option.
On the group policy editor screen, verify if the group policy template was removed.
Here are the administrative templates available before our configuration.
In our example, we deleted all the group policy templates from Microsoft Office 2016.
To save the group policy configuration, you need to close the Group Policy editor.
Congratulations! You have deleted the ADMX and ADML files to remove a GPO template on Windows.
