Q201776: SMS: Double-Byte Character Set Name Sorting Limitation

Article: Q201776
Product(s): Microsoft Systems Management Server
Version(s): 2.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbinterop kbConfig kbDatabase kbMMC kbServer kbsms200 kbCollections kbQuery kbsmsAdmin
Last Modified: 14-MAR-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0 
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SUMMARY
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When you are querying the "All users" collection in the Systems Management
Server Administrator Console, user names in the double-byte character set (DBCS)
are not sorted correctly.

MORE INFORMATION
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The sort order shown in the Systems Management Server Administrator Console is
returned by Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server does not allow more than one sort
order in a mixed code page environment.

NOTE: Most European fonts, including all ISO8859 code sets, are single-byte
fonts. Most Asian font sets, including the JIS (Japanese Kanji) fonts, are
double-byte fonts.

If a site hierarchy includes computers using different code pages, you must name
all network resources by using the standard ASCII characters (codes 0 through
127). This includes all computer names, share names, user names, user group
names, domain names, and site codes. If computers in your SMS site hierarchy all
use a common code page, there are no language-specific restrictions on network
resource names.


Additional query words: prodsms sms20 query smssql

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Keywords          : kbinterop kbConfig kbDatabase kbMMC kbServer kbsms200 kbCollections kbQuery kbsmsAdmin kbsmsProvider 
Technology        : kbSMSSearch kbSMS200
Version           : :2.0
Issue type        : kbinfo
Solution Type     : kbnofix

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