Chapter 5. Working With Active Directory And Adm Files; Adding Administrative Templates; Installing The Client Configuration Plugin For Access Connections - Lenovo ThinkPad G40 Deployment Manual

Chapter 5. Working with Active Directory and ADM files

Active Directory provides a mechanism that gives administrators the ability to
manage computers, groups, end users, domains, security policies, and any type of
user-defined objects. The mechanisms used by Active Directory to accomplish this
are known as Group Policy and Administrative Template files (ADM). With Group
Policy and ADM files, administrators define settings that can be applied to
computers or users in the domain.
For more information about Active Directory or Group Policy, see the following
Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com

Adding Administrative Templates

Designed to save your time and effort, Lenovo provides an Administrative
Template file, "tvtacad.adm", which can be used with Group Policy to set the
configuration policies for Access Connections. The tvtacad.adm file can be
downloaded from Lenovo Web site.
Complete the following steps for adding the Access Connections Administrative
Template (ADM file) to the Group Policy editor:
1. On the machine running the Active Directory server, click Start Menu >
2. Right click on Default Domain Policy node, and select Edit. The Group Policy
3. Under Computer Configuration, right click on Administrative Templates.
4. Click Add , and then select the tvtacad.adm file.
5. Click Close on the Add/Remove Templates dialog box.
6. Under the Computer Configuration, click the Administrative Templates. A

Installing the client configuration plugin for Access Connections

Designed to save you time and effort, Lenovo has provided supplemental plug-in
files to set client configuration policies for Access Connections. The following
supplemental file is compressed in the acplgin45.exe:
v tvtacad.adm - This administrative template is used with Group Policy to set the
This file supports Access Connections 4.2 and above.
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Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management. The
Group Management console is opened.
Object Editor is displayed.
new tab named ThinkVantage is present. Under the ThinkVantage tab there
will be a Access Connections tab. All the available settings can be configured
now for this machine.
configuration policies for Access Connections.
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