Advice on creating a central store

Hi, just after a bit of guidance.
I want to make Office 2013 templates available to all administrators using GPMC.
I have read about creating a central store for administrative templates.
However some of the guides I have found say: " Every policy that you create will automatically include this ADM folder"  -
http://deployhappiness.com/creating-the-group-policy-central-store-updated-for-windows-8-12012r2/
But my policy folders don't all have an ADM folder, does this mean there is something wrong with my sysvol/FQDN/Policies folder?
I also heard that when creating a central store it will delete my existing templates, I have found a download for Win 8.1/Server 2012 templates here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=41193
But will that be all the templates for XP/7 etc or just strictly Win8/2012?
Basically I want to create a central store with EVERYTHING in it, so I don't lose any policies and I have all templates saved as well as the ability to add new templates for things like Office in the future.

Hi,
Thanks for posting in the forum.
Regarding your request, you’d better refer to the following official article to implement the Central Store.
How to create the Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Template files in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929841
How to Implement the Central Store for Group Policy Admin Templates, Completely (Hint: Remove Those .ADM files!)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2011/12/12/how-to-implement-the-central-store-for-group-policy-admin-templates-completely-hint-remove-those-adm-files.aspx
Here is another article as reference, it may be useful too.
Creating a Group Policy Central Store
http://www.petri.co.il/creating-group-policy-central-store.htm#
Since some settings have changed on the latest Windows OS, if you want to keep the settings, you’d better keep the template file for older OS.
Hope this helps.
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