Separate GPO for 32-bit and 64-bit machines?

Before I give myself a whole load of work wanted to confirm this either way...
We're imaging both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 this summer (x86 for app compatibility and x64 for Adobe CS6 etc). So far I've made a full working policy for x86 but now need to do x64.
When I created the initial policy on a 32-bit machine the ZCM console automatically seems to add a requirement of Architecture = 32-bit which suggests the policy can only be used on that version of the OS - do I need to create a separate x64 policy from scratch or can the x86 GPO be applied (and work consistently and be supported) on the x64 machines?

Yes unfortunately you have to create your policies with the bit version of
the OS. So you have to do it with a 32bit and 64bit machine.
"gshaw0" wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Before I give myself a whole load of work wanted to confirm this either
way...
We're imaging both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 this summer (x86 for app
compatibility and x64 for Adobe CS6 etc). So far I've made a full
working policy for x86 but now need to do x64.
When I created the initial policy on a 32-bit machine the ZCM console
automatically seems to add a requirement of Architecture = 32-bit which
suggests the policy can only be used on that version of the OS - do I
need to create a separate x64 policy from scratch or can the x86 GPO be
applied (and work consistently and be supported) on the x64 machines?
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