Article ID: 281454
Article Last Modified on 2/21/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
This article was previously published under Q281454
SYMPTOMS
After you install Multilanguage Pack (MUI) and choose a preferred language for menus and dialog boxes, privileges that are defined in local security settings are not applied, and the following error messages appear in the Application event log:
CAUSE
When you choose a language in MUI other than English, editing group policies causes the account names for the default accounts in the Group Policy files to be replaced with the localized names. This causes the group polices not to be applied on English installations.
RESOLUTION
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.
To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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. The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name
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4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 30,208 Lsasrv~1.br
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 29,184 Lsasrv~1.da
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 31,744 Lsasrv~1.es
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 28,672 Lsasrv~1.fi
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 33,280 Lsasrv~1.fr
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 33,280 Lsasrv~1.ger
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 31,232 Lsasrv~1.hu
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 32,256 Lsasrv~1.it
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 17,920 Lsasrv~1.jpn
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 32,256 Lsasrv~1.nl
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 28,160 Lsasrv~1.no
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 29,696 Lsasrv~1.pl
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 31,232 Lsasrv~1.pt
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 29,184 Lsasrv~1.ru
4/20/2001 03:39p 5.0.2184.1 28,672 Lsasrv~1.sv
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 52,224 Netplw~1.br
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 51,200 Netplw~1.da
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 52,736 Netplw~1.es
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 50,176 Netplw~1.fi
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 57,856 Netplw~1.fr
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 56,320 Netplw~1.ger
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 53,760 Netplw~1.hu
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 52,736 Netplw~1.it
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 35,328 Netplw~1.jpn
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 54,272 Netplw~1.nl
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 49,152 Netplw~1.no
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 52,736 Netplw~1.pl
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 55,296 Netplw~1.pt
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 50,176 Netplw~1.ru
4/18/2001 08:46p 5.0.2167.1 50,688 Netplw~1.sv
Note that this hotfix is not included in any Windows 2000 service pack. Regardless of the service pack that you have installed, if you are experiencing this MUI issue, you must install this hotfix. If you install additional MUI languages by using MUI setup after you first install MUI, you must reinstall the hotfix.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server product
For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
296861 How to install multiple Windows updates or hotfixes with only one reboot
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, Interactive, and so on, are translated to the new language.
Local security settings are stored in the %SystemRoot%\Security\Secedit.sdb file, which is actually a Jet database. User and group accounts are stored as strings, not as SIDs. So, for example, after you change the language with MUI, the "Everyone" string cannot be mapped to a valid SID and privileges cannot be applied if they previously included an account whose name has changed. For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes
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