At sepago we needed to create documentation of the settings that can be influenced with the ADM template file used for Citrix’s User Profile Manager (UPM). Because of the structure of ADM template files, to do so by hand would require a lot of copying and pasting which gets tedious very fast. Also once an ADM template file reaches a certain size it becomes impossible to extract all the data by hand in a reasonable amount of time. An example of a very big ADM template file is system.adm used by Windows. On my XP machine it is 1.9 MB big and has about 13.500 lines of text. Given these numbers it’s clear that using copy and paste to extract the data included in a file of that size is not feasible anymore. The idea of a tool that offers an easy and fast way to generate a HTML document describing all the policy settings in an ADM template file emerged.
