No results for 'User' policies

[PreviousPoster]

I am attempting to determine policy settings on my local PC. I can get the 'Computer' settings by doing the following (using C#):

ManagementScope ms = new ManagementScope("\\root\\RSOP\\Computer");
ObjectQuery oq = new ObjectQuery("SELECT * FROM RSOP_RegistryPolicySetting");
ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(ms, oq);
ManagementObjectCollection moc = mos.Get();

This gives me a nice long list of policies. However, if I attempt to get the user policies ("\\root\\RSOP\\User" as the path), I get nothing returned. No errors, just no results. Anyone have any suggestions? I have also tries selecting from RSOP_PolicySetting and get the same type of result.

[gpoguy]

Well, there are no instances under RSOP\User. All the instances are under the SID of the particular user. So for example you would need to connect to RSOP\User\<SID>

[PreviousPoster]

Thanks for the reply. What format should the SID take? I tried the typical S-1-5-21-... and all I get is a 'Invalid parameter' error.

[gpoguy]

Yes, standard SID string form. You of course need to make sure that the SID exists in WMI. I use WMIX as a WMI browser. Great tool.

[PreviousPoster]

Again, thanks for the reply. However, I still just get 'Invalid parameter'.

Here is the code snippet:
ManagementScope ms = new ManagementScope("\\root\\RSOP\\User\\S-1-5-21-dddddddd-dddddddddd-dddddddd-dddd");
ObjectQuery oq = new ObjectQuery("SELECT * FROM RSOP_RegistryPolicySetting");
ManagementObjectSearcher mos = new ManagementObjectSearcher(ms, oq);
ManagementObjectCollection moc = mos.Get();

I don't want to go publishing my SID, but I check it in several places, including WMI, LDAP and WIN32, so I know it is the correct SID.

By the way, I use WinXP Professional with SP2 and I am an Administrator of my PC.

[PreviousPoster]

I discovered what the problem is:
The SID needs to be specified with '_' (underscores) instead of '-' (dashes).

Again, thanks for your help.

[gpoguy]

Yes, sorry-- I didn't even notice that when I was looking at WMI!