Thursday, April 22, 2010

“Group cannot be specified along with other identification conditions.”

“Group cannot be specified along with other identification conditions.”
Windows Server Core 2008 R2
While using server core yesterday I came across another interesting error. I was attempting to update a firewall rule and I kept receiving this error:
“Group cannot be specified along with other identification conditions”
I double checked my spelling and syntax and everything looked right. Take a look at the picture below, can you see my mistake?

It turns out it was actually a pretty dumb issue, but an easy one to overlook. I had copy and pasted the command in from a webpage, and the quotes must have been Microsoft Word style quotes. I deleted the quotes, re-ran the command, and success! It’s a minor issue that was easy to overlook. In this case it was quick to find and fix, but it reminded me of the days when I searched for an error in my .NET code only to see that two single quotes ” looked like one ” double quote character. It took forever to find the error because everything appeared right, but of course it wasn’t.

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