The pop message "Encountered an error while parsing" will occur if the .adml files missing in the %windir%\PolicyDefinitions\en-US

Question

while editing  via GPMC we are getting below error Encountered an error while parsing” will occur if the .adml files missing in the %windir%\PolicyDefinitions\en-US
Mukesh Saini

Answer 1

Hi sainimuk,
Remember that the ADML-files are language specific and stored in language specific folders. The ADLM-files is used to present information in ADMX files in a localized manner.
To create the Central Store:
ADMX-files goes here:
\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions
ADML-files goes here:
\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\EN-US (For US English)
\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\NB-NO (For Norwegian)
\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\KO-KR (For Korean).. and so on...
So if you have your EN-US folder populated with all relevant ADML-files, but open GPMC from, lets say a Workstation with Norwegian language, it will try to access the nb_NO Folder. If no files are there, an error is presented.
For all i know, maybe some of your ADMX / ADML files are broken.
It should be no problem to re-download them and replace the ones you are having problems with.
Download ADMX (With ADML-files for 34 languages) for Windows Server 2008 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14355
-tsh