[This is prerelease documentation and is subject to change in future releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.]

When installing, configuring, or administering to System Center Essentials 2010, typing invalid characters into the following boxes might result in error messages:

The error message will either be displayed in a Tooltip or open in a new window. You will need to remove the invalid character in order to proceed.

The following characters are considered invalid in Essentials 2010:

Character Name

&

Ampersand

Apostrophe

*

Asterisk

@

At sign

\

Backslash

{ }

Braces

[ ]

Brackets

^

Caret

:

Colon

,

Comma

$

Dollar sign

=

Equal sign

!

Exclamation mark

/

Forward slash

`

Grave accent

<

Left angle bracket

#

Number sign

( )

Parentheses

.

Period

+

Plus sign

?

Question mark

Quotation marks

>

Right angle bracket

;

Semicolon

~

Tilde

|

Vertical bar (or pipe)

Note
Some characters may be invalid for one text box but acceptable in others. You may receive error messages for characters other than those shown in the list. An "at" symbol (@) is not allowed in a user name box unless it is used to specify the domain. For example, user@mydomain.com is allowed; user@name@mydomain.com is not allowed.

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