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Title
The DSRM password cannot include special characters like "$" or "&" -
Description
The DSRM password cannot include special symbols like "$" or "&". The Forest Recovery Agent does not escape the special characters like "$" and "&" properly and assumes there's a variable or an unsupported character in the password string.
You may observe a similar or same error as the following during the restore process:controller.rootdom.local 24.05.2017 09:58:39 Error The following operation has failed: Reinstall Active Directory Domain Services.Details: At line:1 char:100+ ... nName rootdom.local\Administrator -adminPasswordString This&That -d ...+ ~The ampersand (&) character is not allowed. The & operator is reserved forfuture use; wrap an ampersand in double quotation marks ("&") to pass it aspart of a string.+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : AmpersandNotAllowed.The same issue can occur with the Domain Access password. It is used to provide the Credentials parameter for the Install-ADDSDomainController PowerShell cmdlet. Please note that the "`" character results in the same issue when used in passwords. -
Cause
A defect has been found and filed under RMADFE-1073. -
Resolution
The issue is planned to be resolved in the 9.0 release of Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition. -
Defect ID
RMADFE-1073