GroupPolicyObject.GetDSPath Method (GpoSection)

Article
10/10/2016

Retrieves the Active Directory path to the root of the specified Group Policy object (GPO) section.

Namespace: Microsoft.GroupPolicy
Assembly: Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management.Interop (in Microsoft.GroupPolicy.Management.Interop.dll)

Syntax

public string GetDSPath(
    GpoSection section
)

public:
String^ GetDSPath(
    GpoSection section
)

member GetDSPath : 
        section:GpoSection -> string

Public Function GetDSPath (
    section As GpoSection
) As String

Parameters

section
Type: Microsoft.GroupPolicy.GpoSection

One of the GpoSection enumeration values that specifies the GPO section.

Return Value

Type: System.String

Returns String. The path in ADSI format (LDAP://cn=user, ou=users, dc=coname, dc=com).

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ObjectDisposedException	The GroupPolicyObject is disposed.

Remarks

If you call the GetDSPath method and specify a computer GPO, the method returns an empty string (“”). This is because computer GPOs do not have Active Directory storage; they have only file system storage.

To retrieve the file system path to the root of a GPO section, you can call the GetFileSystemPath method.