In my 2016 Active Directory Server in the Group Policy under the Administrative Templates tab I am not getting anything. On my old 2012 AD server there was a plethora of options to choose from. I have downloaded some Secure Host Baseline templates (.admx) files that I would like to import. However, when I try to add these templates it tells me that it only accepts .adm files. The ADM files were used back in Windows Server 2003.
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"Import" is accomplished by copying the admx/adml files to %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions folder (the default location) where you will run Group Policy Management Console. The .adml files are copied to %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions\xx-xx, where xx-xx is the language code.
Or if you use a Group Policy Central Store, %systemroot%\SYSVOL\[domain]\Policies\PolicyDefinitions on one of your domain controllers, where it will be replicated to the other domain controllers in your domain. If you have a domain that was upgraded from 2003, the SYSVOL directory may be SYSVOL_DFSR.