Microsoft KB Archive/279234

= SMS: Case-Sensitive Sort Order May Affect Security Rights in SMS Administrator Console =

Article ID: 279234

Article Last Modified on 10/25/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 3

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This article was previously published under Q279234



SYMPTOMS
When you configure a Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) database with a case-sensitive sort order on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based server, problems may occur when you attempt to assign security rights. When a new security instance is created in the SMS Administrator console, the user account that created this instance is given the appropriate class right permissions. However, the account is also added with an initial capital letter, and is set to &quot;No Permissions.&quot;

Example
Log on as domain\administrator, and then create a new collection. When you review the security rights for the collection after you successfully create it, you see the following information:

'''Domain\administrator - Full Access (Read, Modify, Delete, Create, Administer, etc)

Domain\Administrator - No Permissions'''

After you quit and then restart the SMS Administrator console, only the collection that was previously created is displayed, while none of the SMS default collections are listed.

In addition, when you add a new user through the Security Rights node of the SMS Administrator console, regardless of which rights you copy, a new user receives the following rights:

'''Collections - No Permissions

Packages - No Permissions

Advertisements - No security context added'''



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Systems Management Server version 2.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

288239 SMS: How to Obtain the Latest Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, perform the necessary SQL procedures to change the sort order so that it is not case sensitive.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 4.

Additional query words: prodsms case sensitive lower no permission

Keywords: kbqfe kbhotfixserver kbbug kbcollections kbconfig kbdatabase kbenv kbfix kbsecurity kbsms200presp4fix kbsmsadmin KB279234

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