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Special Characters in the Replication Share password will cause scripts or managed installation payload not to download to the client machine

When setting up replication share, there is a known issue with password for the User download and Destination User if the password has special characters in it. It will cause the replication share to fail when trying to access it.

Special characters would include like commas, quotes, double quotes, exclamation mark, @ sign, greater and less than sign, etc..

This also affect managed installations and scripts where the files will not be able to access to the replication share and downloaded the files into the client machine.

The workaround currently is to do the following:

1. Remove the special characters in the Replication Share Users for the Download and Destination.

This will be fixed in future release. This can also happen when using replication share for patching as well.

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Updated on: 12/17/2009