Jesper

I did a little more looking into this. It turns out that it is fully to be
expected that the Extra Registry Settings show up in the GPO. If you look
carefully at them you will find out that they all have to do with the Vista
Firewall. The Vista Firewall is configured in the Windows Settings section,
but it writes its settings into the registry.pol file that is primarily used
for settings configured in the Administrative Templates section. When gpmc
goes to parse the registry.pol file it can't find a corresponding ADMX
template, because there is none, so it lists all the new firewall settings as
"Extra Registry Settings."

"Jesper" wrote:

> First, send feedback on the guide. I already did. They are well aware that
> these settings are not modifiable, but from what I can tell, there are no
> plans to make them available.
>
> We could also write an ADMX template to make them available. I have
> something to do today, but I may get time to do that next week. I still need
> to build out a Longhorn Server I can use to install them on first.
>
> "Dan Metzler" wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts on whether or how we might be able to get access to those?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Dan Metzler
> >
> > "Jesper" <Jesper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:A2078413-9270-4E65-833D-EEA3F982F538@microsoft.com...
> > >I think you are right on. There seems to be adm/admx templates missing.
> > >
> > > "Dan Metzler" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Has anyone looked at the GPOs created by the Vista Security Guide and
> > >> found
> > >> that some settings appear not to have admx template files associated with
> > >> them?
> > >>
> > >> When I view the VSG EC Desktop, Laptop, and Users policies in GPMC on a
> > >> Vista computer, I see an "Extra Registry Settings" category under
> > >> Administrative templates. If I expand this category, I see a number of
> > >> registry settings in the policy which, I assume, there is no way for me
> > >> to
> > >> modify since there is no Administrative Template associated with it.
> > >>
> > >> Should the Vista Security Guide have come with some Administrative
> > >> Templates
> > >> for Vista? Or am I missing something?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> - Dan Metzler
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
> >