Implement the Central Store for Group Policy

Question

Hello,
I have question about the GPO central store.
I currently have a domain consisting of 2 windows 2016 dc with domain and forest level to windows 2008 r2 and I have not yet implemented the central store for gpo.
Now I would like to implement the central store for gpo as I want to make policies for the WSUS and I want to specify the week of the month in which to install the patches.
The clients of this domain to which the policies are applied are windows 7 and windows 10.
Also there are sever 2008r2,2016 and 2019 to which gpo have been applied.
I have read how to implement the central store for gpo and the procedure is quite simple.
My question is but are existing gpo impacted in the central store implementation?
Are there any problems implementing the central store in my AD?

Thank you

Greetings

Answer 1

Hi,

Welcome to ask here!
There will no impact on the existing GPOs you deployed before.

The ADMX files are used only when you are when you are editing GPOs in GP Editor. When you expand the Administrative Templates node, and you see all of those folders, sub-folders and policy items–those correspond to GP Editor reading each ADMX file it finds, and building that tree of nodes dynamically.
Once you are finished editing that GPO, those ADMX files are not in use at all.

When client computers or users process Group Policy, the ADMX files are not used at all.
They are not stored in the GPO, they are not downloaded by the client that is processing that GPO, and they are never referenced during GP processing.

ADMX files central store is only for the easy management.

Best Regards,

Answer 2

Thank you for your answer

Answer 3

@pazzoide76
Could you explain how you created folders for different policies?

It would be like this?
\mydomain.com\SYSVOL\mydomain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions1507
\mydomain.com\SYSVOL\mydomain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions1709
\mydomain.com\SYSVOL\mydomain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions21H1