Microsoft KB Archive/946342

= Error message when you start Forefront Server Security Management Console on a backup server: &quot;Password mismatch between the Primary and Backup Servers&quot; =

Article ID: 946342

Article Last Modified on 12/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console

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SYMPTOMS
You configure the password so that data is encrypted when data is transferred between Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console that is running the Primary server role and Forefront Security Management Console that is running the Backup server role. After you do this, you receive the following error message when you start Forefront Server Security Management Console on the backup server:

Password mismatch between the Primary and Backup Servers. The passwords must be the same. Correct the password at Change Password.

You experience this problem in one of the following scenarios:

Scenario 1

 * The primary server connects to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 installation that uses a particular language locale. For example, the primary server connects to an English version of SQL Server 2005.
 * The backup server connects to a SQL Server 2005 installation that uses a different language locale. For example, the backup server connects to a Chinese version of SQL Server 2005.

Scenario 2

 * The primary server connects to a SQL Server 2005 installation that uses a particular language locale. For example, the primary server connects to an English version of SQL Server 2005.
 * The backup server connects to a SQL Server 2005 installation that uses the same language locale. However, this SQL Server 2005 installation uses a language ID that differs from the language ID that is used by the SQL Server 2005 installation to which the primary server connects.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because Forefront Server Security Management Console does not support replication between SQL Server installations that have different language IDs.

For data replication to function, the installations of SQL Server that are used by the primary server and by the backup server must have the same language ID.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, configure the primary server and the backup server to connect to installations of SQL Server 2005 that use the same language ID.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about how to configure Forefront Server Security Management Console, see the Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console User Guide. To obtain this guide, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107

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