Microsoft KB Archive/166548

= XADM: Administrators Cannot Add Accounts to Private IS =

Article ID: 166548

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q166548



SYMPTOMS
If you are an administrator of Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0, when you try to add Windows NT accounts to the private information store with the Admin Role the following error message appears:   Microsoft Exchange Administrator An internal processing error has occurred: the attribute or value exists. Try restarting the Administrator program or the Microsoft Exchange Server computer, or both. Microsoft Exchange Directory ID no: DS_E_ATTRIBUTE_OR_VALUE_EXISTS



CAUSE
Microsoft Exchange Server is not reading the Windows NT security descriptor for the store correctly when a modification is made.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Keywords: kbusage KB166548

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