Creating a Group Policy Central Store is critical for large organizations that want to leverage the features and functionality of Group Policy at a enterprise level.
The central store provides a central location for all group policy (ADM/ADMX) files to be stored and retrieved. This insures that all computers retrieve the same setting from the same place.
So to start this we:
1. Identify the most current server/workstation on the network. Just as a secondary precaution, run Windows Update and make sure you have applied all updated and security patches.
2. Navigate to: C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
3. Select all
4. Copy all selected Items
5. Navigate to: \\{FQDD}\SYSVOL\{FQDN}\Policies\PolicyDefinitions
6. Paste these Contents of your prior copy into this location (yes its ok to overwrite the files currently there if any)
Congratulations you now have a Central Store for all your group policy objects
To Verify:
1. Open any group policy object.
2. Click Edit on any GPO
3. Open (Computer Configuration > Policies >)
4. Mouse Over Administrative Templates and you should see something like the screenshot below at the End of Administrative Templates
