ADM Converter

Extract text from ADM files


Drop or upload your .ADM file
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How to extract text from your ADM file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ADM file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert ADM to another file type

To convert your ADM file to another format, you need Microsoft Group Policy Editor or other System software.

Convert a file to ADM

To convert other file formats to the "Policy Template & GPS Data" file type, you need software like Microsoft Group Policy Editor or a similar tool.


About ADM files

The .ADM file extension serves four distinct technical purposes, often causing confusion.

  1. Microsoft Administrative Template: Historically, these are legacy text-based template files used by Microsoft Group Policy to define registry-based policy settings on Windows networks (pre-Vista/Server 2008). Constraints: Unlike modern ADMX files, ADM files are monolithic (containing both settings and language strings) and are stored locally in the Group Policy Object (GPO) on the SYSVOL share. This causes significant "SYSVOL bloat" and replication traffic, as a 4MB file replicates to every Domain Controller for every policy. They also lack the multi-language support of the newer XML-based format. Users convert these to ADMX to utilize the Central Store and improve replication efficiency.
  2. Garmin GPS Data: Proprietary data files used by Garmin marine chartplotters. They contain user data such as waypoints, routes, and tracks. Constraints: These binary or proprietary XML files are not natively supported by standard GIS tools like Google Earth or QGIS. Users must convert them to GPX or KML for visualization and sharing.
  3. Red Hat Fuse AtlasMap: An archive file generated by AtlasMap containing data mapping definitions. Constraints: This is actually a standard ZIP file containing an atlas-mapping.xml file. Users often need to extract the contents to edit the XML directly.
  4. DayZ Server Log: Plain text administrative logs generated by DayZ game servers (server_exe_name.ADM), used to track player connections and potential cheating.

Convert.Guru analyzes your ADM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted WS11_EXAM_ADM, ADMISSION TEST, ADMIT CARD, ADM, GPX, GDB, RPT, ACSM, ZIP, TXT, WAV, TIF and DAT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert ADM file to GPX, ADMX, SYS, DLL, EXE, DRV, VXD, 386, COM, BAT, CMD or SCR, you can use Microsoft Group Policy Editor or similar software from the "System Policy & GPS Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MSI, EXE, REG, MST, LNK, CAB, CAT, DRV, INF, SYS, MSU or DLL files to ADM, try Microsoft Group Policy Editor or another comparable tool in the "System Policy & GPS Data" category.



The ADM Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ADM converter.