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XADM: Error: Initializing Extension Data Attributes

Article ID: 155124

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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SYMPTOMS

While displaying the properties for the Mailbox Cleanup Agent in the Microsoft Exchange Administrator program, you may receive the following error message:
Error: Initializing Data Extensions
Also, when changing any of the settings for Mailbox Cleanup Agent, you may receive a Dr. Watson error similar to the following:
An application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.
Admin.exe
Exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005), Address: 0x00ab4932

CAUSE

The behavior mentioned above will be seen when the Display Name of your Exchange Site contains one or more non-alphanumeric characters, such as a space or a parenthesis.

WORKAROUND

Remove all non-alphanumeric characters from the display name of the Exchange Site.

STATUS

This has been fixed in Mailbox Cleanup Agent Version 1.4 that shipped in the BackOffice Resource Kit, Part One. This utility and other Exchange tools in the BackOffice Resource Kit, Part One, can be downloaded from the Exchange 4.0 Resource Kit page on http://www.microsoft.com/exchange.

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