Explanation/Reference:
Explanation:
A. Administrative Templates
The Administrative Template files allow you to configure and manage registry-based Group Policy settings.
They are Unicode text files with the extension .adm in Windows XP with SP2 and Windows Server 2003 with SP1, and XML files with the extensions .admx and .adml in Windows Vista and later versions of Windows.
Standard Administrative Templates are deployed with your Windows operating systems. Administrative Templates display the registry settings that you can apply to your users' computers in your GPOs.
Information in the templates populates the administrative interface in Group Policy Object Editor, which you use to set secure registry-based policy information.
A number of standard templates automatically populate the Group Policy Object Editor, and you can add or remove templates later. Developers can create custom templates as needed.
C. Group Policy Preferences
You can use Group Policy preferences to better deploy and manage operating system and application settings.
Group Policy preferences enable IT professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings they previously were not able to manage using Group Policy. Examples include mapped drives, scheduled tasks, and Start menu settings. For many types of operating system and application settings, using Group Policy preferences is a better alternative to configuring them in Windows images or using logon scripts.
Group Policy preferences can be used to implement settings which are "preferred" but not mandatory. This enables IT professionals to deploy software (including Internet Explorer 8) in a standardized initial configuration and still permit users to customize some aspects to their liking.