Microsoft KB Archive/329816

= Cannot apply policies that are edited with a computer running Multilingual User Interface Pack =

Article ID: 329816

Article Last Modified on 11/4/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows XP Professional
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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This article was previously published under Q329816





SYMPTOMS
Permissions defined in local security settings are not applied when one of the following conditions are true:
 * You install the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) pack, and you select a non-english language as the preferred language for menus and dialog boxes.
 * You have a mixture of operating system languages installed in your domain environment.

The following messages are recorded in the application event log:

Event Type: Warning

Event Source: SceCli

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1202

Date: 10/16/1999

Time: 10:13:10 am

User: N/A

Computer:

Description: Security policies are propagated with warning. 0x534 : No mapping between account names and security IDs was done. Please look for more details in the Troubleshooting section in Security Help.

Event Type: Error

Event Source: Userenv

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1000

Date: 10/16/1999

Time: 10:13:11 am

User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

Computer:

Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security was passed flags (17) and returned a failure status code of (1332).

The second error message occurs when you edit domain group policies on a computer that is running MUI and on which the language for the logon screen and new users (the computer language) differs from the user's user interface language. In this case, the accounts in the user rights section of the policies are written by using the computer language instead of the SID of the accounts. You can examine the \Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\Gpttmpl.inf file in the policy for the user names. This problem affects built-in accounts and generic accounts; it does not affect accounts in the Users container or accounts that you create.



CAUSE
When you select a language other than English in the MUI and edit group policies, the account names for the default accounts in the Group Policy files are replaced with the localized names. This causes the group policies not to be applied on English installations.



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

322389 How to obtain the latest Windows XP service pack

Prerequisites
To apply this hotfix, you must have Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed.

Restart requirement
You must restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information
This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

Hotfix information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, it is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Windows 2000 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Customer Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites
To apply this hotfix, you must have Windows 2000 Service Pack 3(SP3) installed.

Restart Requirement
You must restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix Replacement Information
This hotfix does not replace any other hotfixes.

File Information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2.



MORE INFORMATION
After you install MUI and modify the default language for menus and dialog boxes, all well-known security IDs (SIDs) such as Everyone, Authenticated Users, and Interactive are translated to the new language. Local security settings are stored in the %SystemRoot%\Security\database\Secedit.sdb file, which is actually a Microsoft Jet database. User and group accounts are stored as strings, not as SIDs. Therefore, for example, after you change the language with MUI, the &quot;Everyone&quot; string cannot be mapped to a valid SID and permissions cannot be applied if they previously included an account whose name has changed.

When you install the hotfix that is listed in this article, generic accounts are preserved as SIDs in the policy. However, built-in accounts behave differently. These accounts appear as SIDs and are also stored as such:
 * *S-1-5-32-548 (Account Operators)
 * *S-1-5-32-549 (System Operators)
 * *S-1-5-32-550 (Print Operators)

This occurs because the accounts do not exist on the member computer and cannot be resolved. The SID itself still indicates that it is a built-in account that is resolved locally. These are written back to the policy as SIDs and do not cause a problem.

These accounts are loaded as SIDs from the policy but are stored as strings in the computer language:
 * Administrators
 * Backup Operators
 * Guests
 * Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access
 * Replicator
 * Users

These SIDs are known on the member computer, but the language mappings cannot be performed correctly with the current design of Windows XP.

When you add accounts to a policy, these accounts are stored as the English equivalent if the computer and user language do not match:
 * Account Operators
 * Administrators
 * ANONYMOUS LOGON
 * Authenticated Users
 * Backup Operators
 * CREATOR GROUP
 * CREATOR OWNER
 * ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS
 * Everyone
 * Guests
 * INTERACTIVE
 * NETWORK
 * Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access
 * Print Operators
 * Replicator
 * RESTRICTED
 * SELF
 * Server Operators
 * SERVICE
 * Users

This is a limitation of the object picker.

Many of the accounts with the issues that are listed in this article are used primarily in the Default Domain Controller policy. Microsoft recommends that you change this policy only while you are working on a domain controller (through Terminal Services), not when you are running MUI.

Other accounts have limited or no use in user rights assignment for domain members. It is a better idea to use global groups or user accounts to grant user rights. These accounts do not have the problem when they are stored under their names.

