Programmatically get localized user-friendly group policy names in Windows

Question

Please take a look at this screenshot (gpedit.msc) of local group policy settings on my computer:

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Is there any way to retrieve user-friendly (localized) group policy names (circled in the screenshot above) from a C++ program (or maybe using WMI)?

@yesterday how do you include images like that? – ahmd0 Dec 09 '11 at 21:21 — ahmd0, Dec 09 '11 at 21:21

JPBlanc · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-09T12:26:23.457

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According to Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step-by-Step Guide you can find, on your W2K8 server, in the file C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\Desktop.admx an XML description of what is circled in the screenshot above. You can link the description and help tag of this file with C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\Desktop.adml an XML-based ADM files that contain language-specific settings.

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To parse XML in C++ I use to use these two libraries :

edited Dec 09 '11 at 12:26

answered Dec 09 '11 at 06:41

JPBlanc

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Very nice, thank you. Now I need to figure out how to parse it out :) – ahmd0 Dec 09 '11 at 08:11
Can it be considered as an answer ? – JPBlanc Dec 09 '11 at 08:30
Yes, of course. Do you have any idea how to do the parsing? Maybe with WMI? – ahmd0 Dec 09 '11 at 10:08
Here are two XML parser libraries. – JPBlanc Dec 09 '11 at 12:26

Programmatically get localized user-friendly group policy names in Windows

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