Office 2013 Administrative Templates & GPO

Hey, everyone!
I’m sure someone here will know what I’m doing wrong, so hopefully it’s something simple.
This is my first attempt to utilize Office 2013 Administrative Templates in a GPO. I downloaded the templates from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35554)
and extracted them.
I then created a new GPO so that the policy folder was created in logonserver\sysvol\%userdnsdomain%\policies\Adm.
In that folder, I copy the appropriate .admx files and the en-us folder.
Then, when I go to edit that GPO, I get an error:
The following error has occurred in \\Hudsonchapel.org\SysVol\Hudsonchapel.org\Policies\<GUID>\Adm\proj15.admx on line 1: Error
51 Unexpected keyword.
Found <?xml
Expected: CLASS, CATEGORY,
[strings]
The file can not be loaded.
This occurs for any .admx file I’ve tried.
I’m not sure what else to try. I’ve followed what I know to do.
Could someone help me figure out what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks!
-Eric

Hi Eric,
>>I then created a new GPO so that the policy folder was created in logonserver\sysvol\%userdnsdomain%\policies\Adm.
In that folder
How is it going? Did we follow the article provided by Zanderol24 to create the Central Store for admx files? The location of central store is:
%systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions
Regarding ADMX files, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step-by-Step Guide
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530196.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

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