The System Policy Editor (Poledit.exe) from any previous operating system
version cannot read the Unicode-formatted .adm files shipped in Windows
2000. You will need to use the version of System Policy Editor that ships in
Windows 2000, which has been updated to support Unicode. Alternatively, you
can use an older version of Poledit.exe, if you resave the .adm files as
.txt files without Unicode encoding.
1. Remove all #if version and #endif statements from the following .adm
files: system.adm, inetres.adm, conf.adm, and then save the files. Do this
to byprevent inadvertent loading of these files by poledit. (You can use
Notepad or other text editor tool to edit these .adm files).
For example, in the Inetres.adm file, remove these lines:
#if version <= 2
#endif
2. To open Poledit.exe from Windows 2000, click Start, click Run, and type
poledit.exe.
3. In the System Policy Editor window, click Policy Template on the Options
menu.
4. In the Policy Template Options dialog box, click Add, and then select one
of the modified template files (the .adm files that you modified in step 1
above), and click OK.
5. Specify the appropriate policy settings based on groups (or not), as
documented in the System Policy Editor online Help and below.
6. Save the file as NTconfig.pol to the Netlogon share of the Windows NT 4.0
domain controller. Alternatively, you can manually set a path for the policy
file to use, as described in the Specifying a Manual Path to Retrieve the
Policy File from a Specific Location section later in this document.
Note The System Policy Editor is not included in Windows 2000
Professional, but is installed when you install the Windows 2000
Administrative Tools package on Windows 2000 Professional. The Windows 2000
Administration Tools can be installed from Adminpak.msi, located in the I386
folder of the Windows 2000 Server CD.
When you install the AdminPack, Poledit.exe and its supporting .adm files
(Winnt.adm, Windows.adm, and Common.adm) are installed into the \System
directory and the \Inf directory, as they were in Windows NT 4.0. Note that
Poledit.exe is not added to the Start menu, but it is accessible from the
command line.
