SBS2003 and the Office 2003 Resource Kit ADM templates

Good afternoon NG,

We run SBS2k3 Premium and use Office 2003 Professional on our workstations.

I recently loaded the Office Resource Kit to get the ADM templates in order
to set our Office to run under Group Policies.

Now when I go into
ServerManagement/AdvancedManagement/GroupPolicyManagement/Forest/Domains/dom
ain.local/DefaultDomainsPolicy Settings tab, the report generated says:

"The adm file
\\servername\sysvol\domain.local\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB98
4F9}\Adm\WORD11.ADM is not in a valid format and must be replaced. A string
is expected at line 818"

Opening up the WORD11.ADM file at the location specified shows that line 818
is one of the dropdown options for the File SaveAs filetype (specifically
*.txt). The syntax matches the other options for filetypes so I can't see
why the report generated would error out the WORD11.ADM file.

This is a nuisance because I use that report to quickly identify Group
Policy items that have been applied to an SBS Server without having to wade
through millions of options looking for them.

How do I fix this? Does MS have a replacement WORD11.ADM file that does not
generate this error?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks
Karl from Oz.

 

From the google files......

Hello Edward,

This is a known (but pretty new) issue. it has been confirmed that there is
a problem with that template. Below are the directions to resolve this
issue.

1) Opened the Word11.adm in GPMC:
a) The misbehaving entry is under:

KEYNAME Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options
PART "Save Word files as" DROPDOWNLIST
VALUENAME DefaultFormat
ITEMLIST
b) The misbehaving entry resides on Line 818:

NAME "Plain Text (*.txt)"

VALUE "Text"

2) Remove the misbehaving line from the Word11.adm and saved the modified
ADM.
3) Reload the modified Word11.adm via the GPMC.
a) SUCCESS!! Confirm the removal of the line resolves the issue.


Buz Brodin
MCSE NT4 / Win2K
Microsoft Enterprise Domain Support

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Just change line 818 to the following

NAME "Plain Text (*.txt)" VALUE "Txt

Greetings

To
Berlin, Germany