Microsoft KB Archive/322461

= Some clients do not receive the advertisement after you advertise a package to a user group collection in SMS =

Article ID: 322461

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003

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This article was previously published under Q322461





SYMPTOMS
After you advertise a package to a user group collection, some clients do not receive the advertisement.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if the following conditions are true:
 * The destination client is running an English version of software or other single-byte character set (SBCS) software.
 * The destination user group contains double-byte character set (DBCS) characters, such as Japanese characters or Chinese characters.

A client that is running SBCS software cannot correctly read a name that contains DBCS characters. When the client that is running SBCS software tries to read a name that contains DBCS characters, the client incorrectly translates the DBCS characters as question mark (?) characters.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, move the client that is running SBCS software to a collection that does not contain DBCS characters, and then advertise the package to the SBCS collection.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section.

Additional query words: prodsms sms20 unicode

Keywords: kbpackage kbcollections kblocalization kbuser kbinterop kbsoftwaredist kbprb kbnofix kbclient kbadvertisement kbbug KB322461

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