Microsoft KB Archive/915785

= Error message when you use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to generate HTML reports in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: “There is an error in XML document” =

Article ID: 915785

Article Last Modified on 11/3/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, when used with:
 * Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
 * Microsoft System Center Reporting Manager 2006
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to generate HTML reports in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, some reports may generate an error message that is similar to the following:

There is an error in XML document. ' ', hexadecimal value 0x01, is an invalid character. , position.

This symptom only occurs if the report uses one of the following columns as a parameter:
 * SC_ComputerDimension_View

Computer Name

Domain Name
 * SC_CounterDetailDimension_View

Object Name

Instance Name

Counter Name



CAUSE
This problem occurs because a nonprintable character is populated into a user-defined parameter in the report.



Update information
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Download the 915785 package now.

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

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File information
The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) 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 item in Control Panel.

Note This hotfix must be installed on the Reporting Database server instead of on the MOM 2005 Database server.



WORKAROUND
For more information about how to work around this problem, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

914159 Error message when you try to browse a report in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: &quot;The input XML is not well-formed&quot;



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



MORE INFORMATION
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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