Office 2013 Administrative Templates (ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool (OCT) download available
On 11/5/2012, the Office engineering team released updated Office 2013 Administrative Templates and Office Customization Tool (OCT) files which administrators can download here: Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool. Included in this download is an Excel spreadsheet (office2013grouppolicyandoctsettings.xlsx) that lists the Group Policy and OCT settings. The policy settings apply to both Windows Installer-based (MSI) and Click-to-Run Office 2013 Preview installations.
To learn about new settings related to Office 2013 Add-ins management, Apps for Office, escrow keys, Office Start, Office templates and backgrounds, One Note synchronization, Outlook, service level options for Office online features, sign-in, subscription activation, and Telemetry Dashboard, see Office 2013 Administrative Template files (ADMX, ADML) and Office Customization Tool.
For more information about Outlook settings, see Plan feature customizations in Outlook 2013.
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I saw your message in a forum post as well. Take a look here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/a1be5433-6cdd-45a1-9240-69ff4fbfc555/office-2013-administrative-template-files-admxadml-and-office-customization-tool?forum=officesetupdeploy
The download should have contained a folder called ADMX. This is what you need. It contains the admx files as well as the folders that contain the adml (localized) files. I think the admin folder contains files used by OCT. - Anonymous
March 05, 2014
When I download the files, it has 2 files (admin and admx). Is the admin file considered ADML? I'm tyring to surpress the first time messages for office 2013 via GPO and I was directed to save the admx file to PolicyDefinition which makes sense and adml to PolicyDefinitionen-us before running the GPO, but I only see the admin folder so I'm confused, thanks.