Microsoft KB Archive/160153

= XGEN: Directory Import Generates Unusable Random Password =

Article ID: 160153

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q160153



SYMPTOMS
You are doing a Directory Import from the Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator program under Windows NT 4.0 to a computer running Microsoft Exchange server under Windows NT 3.51. If, on the Account Creation dialog box, you select the check boxes "Create Windows NT account" and "Generate random password," the password generated in the PSW file contains non-ASCII characters in the extended character set. This password is not useable.



CAUSE
Because Windows NT is not based on the ASCII character set, an extended character set is used to generate the random password.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange 4.0 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

Additional query words: admin Unicode

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbusage KB160153

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