SMS: Installation Issues in Finnish, Swedish, Estonian, Turkish, or Lithuanian Language Environments (226816)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0
This article was previously published under Q226816 SYMPTOMS When you install Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0
using a site where one of the following character sets is used FinnishSwedishEstonianTurkishLithuanian Systems Management Server behaves abnormally and seems to have
difficulty uniquely identifying individual client computers. CAUSE This behavior occurs because the Microsoft SQL Server data
store for Systems Management Server is configured to use a sort order that does
not differentiate between characters which, in one or more of the languages
listed in the "Symptoms" section, are considered the same character. The
following list describes some of these situations:
- The letter "w" is equivalent to "v" in Estonian, Finnish,
and Swedish.
- The letter "y" is equivalent to "i" in
Lithuanian.
- The lowercase letter "i" is not equivalent to the uppercase "I" in Turkish.
These differences may become an issue when two characters, such
as V and W -- which are different in character weight in English but are
equivalent in character weight in Swedish and Finnish -- are used to compose
Systems Management Server *unique* ID fields. WORKAROUND To work around this issue, configure your SQL Server data
store for Systems Management Server to use a sort order that is "aware" of
these character-set-specific differences. For example, the sort order
Swedish/Finnish (Std) dictionary order, case-ins., uppercase
pref is one such sort order available in both SQL Server 6.5 and SQL
Server 7.0. STATUSMicrosoft has
confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 4/13/2006 |
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| Keywords: | kbBug kbpending KB226816 |
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