Administrative Templates (admx) for Windows 10 May 2020 Update released

Microsoft has published the administrative templates for Windows 10 version 2004, the new feature update for Windows 10 that Microsoft released last month to the public.
Professional versions of Windows 10 come with a set of policies that administrators may configure using the Group Policy Editor. Administrators may extend the default set of policies by installing the Windows 10 Administrative Templates.
These templates install additional policies on Windows 10 devices. Microsoft updates the optional administrative templates every time it releases a new feature update for the operating system.
The latest at the time of writing, Administrative Templates for Windows 10 version 2004, the May 2020 Update, is now available.
All it requires is to download the 12.9 Megabyte msi file to the local system. The downloaded file may be installed directly on a target system or it may be extracted using a tool such as 7-Zip instead to take a look at the templates that it installs prior to installing them.
The templates (admx) are available for several languages including English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and Polish.
Administrators who compare the number of policies against the previous version will notice that the number of included policies has decreased by about 200. The drop is caused by the removal of msedge.admx.
Administrative Templates for Windows 10 version 2004 includes the following new policies:
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Account Policies > Password Policy > Minimum Password Length Audit
- Determines the minimum password length for which password length audit warning events are issued.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Account Policies > Password Policy > Relax minimum password length limits
- Defines if the minimum password length setting can be increased beyond the legacy limit of 14.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Logon > Turn on security key sign-in
- This policy setting allows you to control whether users can sign in using external security keys.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Components > App Privacy > Let Windows apps access user movements while running in the background
- Specifies whether applications may access the movement of a user's head, hands, motion controllers, and other tracked objects, while they runs in the background.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Components > App Package Deployment > Prevent non-admin users from installing packaged Windows apps
- Prevent the installation of packaged Windows apps by non-administrators.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Delivery Optimization > Maximum Foreground Download Bandwidth in KB/s
- Set the maximum foreground download bandwidth that the device can use across all concurrent download activities using Delivery Optimization.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Delivery Optimization > Maximum Background Download Bandwidth in KB/s
- Set the maximum background download bandwidth that the device can use across all concurrent download activities using Delivery Optimization.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Delivery Optimization > Cache Server Hostname Source
- Specifies how clients discover Delivery Optimization in Network Cache servers dynamically. Options are 1=DHCP Option 235, 2=DHCP Option 235 Force.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Configure which channel of Microsoft Edge to use for opening redirected sites
- Define which version of Chromium Edge is going to used for opening redirected sites.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus > MpEngine > Enable file hash for computation feature
- Microsoft Defender will compute hash values for files it scans if enabled.
- Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Windows Update for Business > Select the target Feature Update version
- Enable this policy to request a specific Feature Update version in future scans.
- Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > IME > Configure Japanese IME version
- Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > IME > Configure Simplified Chinese IME version
- Local Computer Policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > IME > Configure Traditional Chinese IME version
- Defines whether users may control the IME version to use in the selected language.
Microsoft removed five policies in the new administrative templates:
- Delivery Optimization > Max Upload Bandwidth (in KB/s)
- Delivery Optimization > Maximum Download Bandwidth (in KB/s)
- Delivery Optimization > Maximum Download Bandwidth (percentage)
- Windows Defender Application Guard > Allow users to trust files that open in Windows Defender Application Guard
- Windows Defender Application Guard > Configure additional sources for untrusted files in Windows Defender Application Guard
Now You: do you use policies on Windows?


What mental age of reader are you targeting with the first sentence? 10?
Why not write an article on how to *avoid* upgrading from W10 to W11. Analogous to those like me who avoided upgrading from 7 to 10 for as long as possible.
If your paymaster Microsoft permits it, of course.
5. Rufus
6. Ventoy
PS. I hate reading these “SEO optimized” articles.
I used Rufus to create an installer for a 6th gen intel i5 that had MBR. It upgraded using Setup. No issues except for Win 11 always prompting me to replace my local account. Still using Win 10 Pro on all my other PCs to avoid the bullying.
bit pointless to upgrade for the sake of upgrading as you never know when you’ll get locked out because ms might suddenly not provide updates to unsupported systems.
ps…. time travelling?
written. Jan 15, 2023
Updated • Jan 13, 2023
This happens when you schedule a post in WordPress and update it before setting the publication date.
Anyone willing to downgrade to this awful OS must like inflicting themselves with harm.
I have become convinced now that anybody who has no qualms with using Windows 11/10 must fit into one of the following brackets:
1) Too young to remember a time before W10 and W11 (doesn’t know better)
2) Wants to play the latest games on their PC above anything else (or deeply needs some software which already dropped W7 support)
3) Doesn’t know too much about how computers work, worried that they’d be absolutely lost and in trouble without the “”latest security””
4) Microsoft apologist that tries to justify that the latest “features” and “changes” are actually a good thing, that improve Windows
5) Uses their computer to do a bare minimum of like 3 different things, browse web, check emails, etc, so really doesn’t fuss
Obviously that doesn’t cover everyone, there’s also the category that:
6) Actually liked W7 more than 10, and held out as long as possible before switching, begrudgingly uses 10 now
Have I missed any group off this list?
You have missed in this group just about any professional user that uses business software like CAD programs or ERP Programs which are 99% of all professional users from this list.
Linux doesn’t help anyone who is not a linux kid and apple is just a fancy facebook machine.
Microsoft has removed KB5029351 update
only from windows update though
KB5029351 is still available from the ms update catalog site
1. This update is labaled as PREVIEW if it causes issues to unintelligent people, then they shouldn’t have allowed Preview updates ot install.
2. I have installed it in a 11 years old computer, and no problems at all.
3. Making a big drama over a bluescreen for an updated labeled as preview is ridiculous.
This is probably another BS internet drama where people ran programs and scripts that modified the registry until they broke Windows, just for removing stuff that they weren’t even using just for the sake of it.
Maybe people should stop playing geeks and actually either use Windows 10 or Windows 11, but don’t try to modify things just for the sake of it.
Sometimes removing or stopping things (like defender is a perfect example) only need intelligence, not scripts or 3rd party programs that might mess with windows.
Windows 11 was a pointless release, it was just created because some of the Windows team wanted to boost sales with some sort of new and improved Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft cannot support one version well let alone two.
Windows 11 is the worst ugly shame by Microsoft ever. They should release with every new W11 version a complete free version of Starallback inside just to make this sh** OS functionally again.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released a statement regarding the “unsupported processor” blue screen error for their boards using Intel 600/700 series chipsets & to avoid the KB5029351 Win11 update:
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/MSI-On–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–Error-Message-of-Windows-11-Update-KB5029351-Preview-142215
check out the following recent articles:
Neowin – Microsoft puts little blame on its Windows update after UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR BSOD bug:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-puts-little-blame-on-its-windows-update-after-unsupported-processor-bsod-bug/
BleepingComputer – Microsoft blames ‘unsupported processor’ blue screens on OEM vendors:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-unsupported-processor-blue-screens-on-oem-vendors/
While there may be changes or updates to the Windows 10 Store for Business and Education in the future, it is premature to conclude that it will be discontinued based solely on rumors.
My advice, I left win 15 years ago. Now I’m a happy linux user (linuxmint) but there is Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu depending on your needs.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released new BIOS/firmware updates for their Intel 600 & 700 series motherboards to fix the “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” problem (Sept. 6):
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/Updated-BIOS-fixes-Error-Message–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–caused-BSOD-on-MSI-s-Intel-700-and-600-Series-Motherboards-142277