XADM: Bulk Import Fails to Create WinNT Accounts for Users

ID: Q147278

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server, version 4.0

SUMMARY

The Microsoft Exchange Administrator program will produce an error in the event log when you do a Directory Import with the Create Windows NT Account option selected if one of the following two situations are true:

If the import file object OBJ-USER contains a predefined Windows NT group (that is, Administrators, Domain Users, etc.)

-or-

If the account specified for the OBJ-USER object is a system account that already exists.

The error in the event log is:

Event ID: 251
Source: MSExchangeDSImp
Description: Unable to create a Windows NT account for user XXX (where XXX is the user specified in the .CSV file).

The Exchange account is also not created at this time.

RESOLUTION

If you import a file that matches one of the two situations above, the Create Windows NT Account option should be turned off before running import.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Exchange version 4.0 for Windows NT. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbusage XADM
Version : winnt:4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type :