Editing logon banner policies that were created on a Windows 2000 system with Windows XP or 2003 can cause the message text to be displayed incorrectly on some Windows XP systems.

So, we created a logon banner policy on a Windows 2000 system, and then we decided to change them on a Windows XP or 2003 system. After we changed the policies, we then looked at a Windows XP system that doesn't have service pack 2 installed.

What happened to our message text? Well, with Windows 2000, the registry key that stores the policy is a REG_SZ value type. When we edited the policy with our newer operating system, the value type was changed to a REG_MULTI_SZ value. In the process of that change, all Windows XP systems without SP2 now interpret any commas as carriage returns rather than just a comma.

Microsoft has released a hotfix for this which you can read about here. Or, you can also upgrade to service pack 2 as the hotfix was included in that service pack.
 
 

 

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