Error message when you use SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to generate HTML reports in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: “There is an error in XML document”

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SYMPTOMS

When you use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to generate HTML reports in Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, some reports may generate an error message that is similar to the following:

There is an error in XML document (line, position). ' ', hexadecimal value 0x01, is an invalid character. Line, position position.

This symptom only occurs if the report uses one of the following columns as a parameter:

SC_ComputerDimension_View
Computer Name
Domain Name
SC_CounterDetailDimension_View
Object Name
Instance Name
Counter Name

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CAUSE

This problem occurs because a nonprintable character is populated into a user-defined parameter in the report.

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RESOLUTION

Update information

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

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Download the 915785 package now. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5fc1871-1286-461d-bfcd-d32cf426e8c3&displaylang=en)

For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119591/ ) How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

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File information

The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

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File name	File version	File size	Date	Time
Momrunscript.exe	5.0.2911.0	124,928	23-Feb-2006	21:25
Q915785.sql	Not Applicable	5,700	08-Mar-2006	20:04

Note This hotfix must be installed on the Reporting Database server instead of on the MOM 2005 Database server.

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WORKAROUND

For more information about how to work around this problem, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

914159 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914159/ ) Error message when you try to browse a report in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services: "The input XML is not well-formed"

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