Microsoft KB Archive/307284

= MMC Hangs When You Access an OU =

Article ID: 307284

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

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This article was previously published under Q307284



SYMPTOMS
When you try to access an OU by using the MMC, the MMC may stop responding (hang), and it may generate an access violation error message.



CAUSE
The OU has ampersands (&) in the name, and when traversing the name, the ampersand falls on the 159th character of the string. In this case, the stack space that is being used to cache the string is damaged, and this can cause the access violation.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date         Time   Version      Size       File name 06-Sep-2001 19:43  5.0.2195.39    234,768  Gdi32.dll 06-Sep-2001 19:43  5.0.2195.42    708,368  Kernel32.dll 25-Jun-2001 19:17  3.10.0.103      47,808  User.exe 06-Sep-2001 19:43  5.0.2195.43    379,664  User32.dll 06-Sep-2001 19:43  5.0.2195.42    371,984  Userenv.dll 29-Aug-2001 16:23  5.0.2195.42  1,731,024  Win32k.sys 29-Aug-2001 16:23  5.0.2195.42    178,448  Winlogon.exe 06-Sep-2001 19:43  5.0.2195.41    252,176  Winsrv.dll



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 Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Additional query words: kbShell

Keywords: kberrmsg kbbug kbfix kbshell kbqfe kbwin2000sp3fix kbenv kbhotfixserver KB307284

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