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I recently went to a customer, where I had to modify some local Group Policy settings on a few computers. As you might know, this is done by opening the Local Group Policy Editor. While it all went perfectly fine on Windows 7 and 8.1 computers, when I attempted to perform the same change on a Windows 10 machine, I received an error that I haven’t seen before.
The error you are getting looks like this:
Namespace ‘Microsoft.Policies.Sensors.WindowsLocationProvider’ is already defined as the target namespace for another file in the store.
File C:\WINDOWS\PolicyDefinitions\Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx, line 5, column 110advertisment
Namespace Group Policy error in Windows 10. (Image Credit: Daniel Petri)
Namespace ‘Microsoft.Policies.Sensors.WindowsLocationProvider’ is already defined as the target namespace for another file in the store.
File
\\<forest.root>\SysVol\<forest.root>\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx, line 5, column 110
You can click “OK” to ignore the error message, and the Group Policy setting works as expected.
So what’s the reason for this error? How do we fix it?
It turns out that the reason for this error is because in Windows 10, the “LocationProviderADM.admx” file was renamed to “Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx”. Additionally, “LocationProviderADM.adml” file was renamed to “Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.adml”.
On a local computer, the path for these files is:
C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
And
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C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US
The policy definitions folder in Windows. (Image Credit: Daniel Petri)
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