Policy Template Editor

Policy Template Editor is an application which provides a graphical aid to create custom policy templates.

One of the most powerful tools in Windows 2003-XP-2000-NT is the System Policy Editor (SPE). Administrators use it to create system policies. System policies are restrictions that a systems administrator can place on a computer, user, or global group. These restrictions control user and machine specific settings on 2003-XP-2000-NT Server and Workstation. When a user logs on, the group or policy file is loaded into the Registry of the local PC. Systems administrators can use system policies to secure the user's desktop in order to reduce the costs of maintaining the 2003-XP-2000-NT environment System policies allow you to centrally manage PC's, users and applications.

Policy Template Files:
The SPE can modify only Registry entries for which a policy template exists. Policy template files are a plaintext list of all possible policies. Templates can be regarded as the source code for policies. They're what creates the book or check-box tree, that you see when you edit a policy's properties via the SPE. However useful, the templates that are currently available do not contain all the possible settings and editing them is very complex.

Graphical User Interface:
Fortunately there is a solution for these problems. Policy Template Editor eliminates the difficulty of creating and editing templates. With the use of graphical aids the Policy Template Editor will generate the complex policy template files for you automatically and without error.