FIX: You cannot use the SQL Server 2008 version of SMO to manage certificates in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000

You try to manage certificates in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000 by using the SQL Server 2008 version of SQL Server Management Objects (SMO). An exception is raised, and SMO does not let you manage the certificates.

This problem occurs because SQL Server 2008 has a specific property that SMO looks for when you try to manage certificates. However, SMO does not verify which version of SQL Server owns the certificates, and when it tries to initialize this SQL Server 2008 specific property, SMO raises the exception.

The fix for this issue was first released in Cumulative Update 2. For more information about how to obtain this cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:Note Because the builds are cumulative, each new fix release contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous SQL Server 2008 fix release. We recommend that you consider applying the most recent fix release that contains this hotfix. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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