Microsoft KB Archive/213340

= SMS: Cannot Open Membership Rules Tab on Identical Collections at Child Site =

Article ID: 213340

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213340



SYMPTOMS
When you attach a site to a parent site that has a collection with an identical name as a collection at the new child site, the collections are properly replicated to the child site and may result in two identically named collections being listed at the child site. However, when you click the Membership Rules tab of either collection, you receive the following error message:

This collection name is already in use. Please enter a different name.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 enforces uniqueness based on name. Note that this behavior does not occur for the default collections installed by Systems Management Server.



WORKAROUND
In this situation, Systems Management Server 2.0 prompts the user to fix the name conflict. When the collection's Properties page is open, change either the child site's collection name or the identical collection name at the parent site.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbbug kbcollections kbnofix kbserver KB213340

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