Article ID: 166548
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q166548
SYMPTOMS
If you are an administrator of Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0, when you try to add Windows NT accounts to the private information store with the Admin Role the following error message appears:
Microsoft Exchange Administrator
An internal processing error has occurred: the attribute or value
exists.
Try restarting the Administrator program or the Microsoft Exchange
Server computer, or both.
Microsoft Exchange Directory
ID no: DS_E_ATTRIBUTE_OR_VALUE_EXISTS
CAUSE
Microsoft Exchange Server is not reading the Windows NT security descriptor for the store correctly when a modification is made.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 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
Keywords: kbusage KB166548
