XGEN: Directory Import Generates Unusable Random Password

Last reviewed: January 6, 1998
Article ID: Q160153

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0

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 : kbbug4.00 kbfix4.00.sp4 XGen kbusage
Version : 4.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug
Solution Type : kbfix

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Last reviewed: January 6, 1998
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