‘Microsoft.Policies.Sensors.WindowsLocationProvider’ is already defined” error when you edit a policy in Windows after adding the Windows 10 ADMX files

Helen Staddon | 14th August 2015 | Windows

Updated our ADMX files today to support our roll out of Windows 10 and upon checking all was ok after a replicate I kept being presented with the following error:

I checked my backup before I added the extra files to note that the file it is referencing is a new one. A quick bing presented me with: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3077013. I wasn’t too keen on Method 1 (Just ignore it!) so went with Method 2 which worked a treat:

  1. Delete the LocationProviderADM.admx and LocationProviderADM.adml files from the central store.
  2. Rename Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.admx to LocationProviderADM.admx
  3. Rename Microsoft-Windows-Geolocation-WLPAdm.adml to LocationProviderADM.adml

Hope it helps!

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