Office Admin Templates

Not sure if I should be posting this here or in a Group Policy forum; however, I'll try here first (apologies if I am wrong)
I've applied the Office 2010 and Office 2013 Admin Templates to the PolicyDefinitions directory on our network
When I go to set under the User Config\Admin Templates\Microsoft Outlook 201x\Outlook Social Connector section it comes up as Extra Registry Settings.
Do I have to use an ADM template for this instead to have it come up a tad more proper?
"Extra Registry Settings" appears, when you have settings defined in a GPO, but the machine performing RSoP (or gpresult or GPMC) does not have access to the updated Admin Template.
Your scenario can occur, if you are using a Central Store.
Are you using a CS?
Are you using an older OS to execute the RSoP/gpresult/GPMC ?
(older OS = older than Vista. WinXP and WS2003 can't deal with ADMX at all. If you are using older OS, you *could* use ADM there, but ADM has other negative implications...)
[Yes, this is more of a GP question, rather than Office. This symptom occurs wherever there are templates-not-found. The old ADM model solved that issue in a not-very-pretty way, i.e. by copying the ADM files into *every* GPO :( ]
Don
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The Office2013 Admin Templates+OCT is available in both 32bit and 64bit formats
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35554
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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178992.aspx#section2
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There is a GPO related to Enterprise template locations in Office 2013 that is not clear at all and poorly documented. The path to the GPO is:
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Hi Petrika,
See the following;
This policy will set the following regkey:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"CorporateTemplates" (REG_SZ or REG_EXPAND_SZ)
You can however also deploy this setting as normal user preference (not as policy), e.g.:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"CorporateTemplates"="\\server\share\corporatethemes"
We are using "Templates" for the regkey and policy description which is somewhat misleading. What we really mean is "Corporate Design Theme Templates" for PowerPoint.
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• Font
• Colors
• Styles/Effects
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Personal themes are typically stored in the user profile under "%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Templates\Document Themes".
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1. Open the "Design" Tab in PowerPoint and expand the Themes Gallery:
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3. Now click on "Save Current Theme…" and save the current theme as "MyTestTheme" to a file share (e.g.
\\server\share\corporatethemes)
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
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7. Sometimes customers do not want the native themes to be displayed but only the corporate themes. This should make it more likely that users are using only corporate themes and not other themes when creating new presentations.
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http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/MS-SharePoint/Q_27950770.html
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/07/01/consuming-sharepoint-content-types-in-office-2010/
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