Group Policy for Windows Defender

[disturbedone]

We're in the process of building a Win7 image to be deployed. I want to configure Windows Defender via Group Policy to disable it completely but can't seem to even load the .admx file.

On a W2K8R2 DC I create a new GPO, go to "Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates: Policy definitions (ADMX files) retrieved from the central store", right-click and select Add/Remove Templates and browse to the SYSVOL folder where WindowsDefender.admx is located along with other .adm, .admx and .adml files but all I can see is .adm files.

If I manually type WindowsDefender.admx I get the error "WindowsDefender.admx is not a valid template file. Only files that end with the .adm file extension can be added to this Group Policy Object"

I've found a few people saying it matters where the .admx file is located but no matter where I store it I get the same error.

Any ideas how to fix this?

 

[NewTech2014]

Have you tried disabling it directly?
windows components - windows defender and disable defender, monitoring and routine action?

Hope that helps.

 

[baddos]

Read this for more info:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/johnbaker/archive/2010/02/03/windows-7-admx-templates.aspx