Parenthesis characters ' ( ) ' are treated as special characters when they are used in account names (NETIQKB9259)

fact
Domain Migration Administrator 6.x

fact
Domain Migration Administrator 7.x

symptom
Parenthesis characters ' ( ) ' are treated as special characters when they are used in account names.

symptom
You may see this warning in the Migration.txt log: ' [7373]W10429: SpecChar1(12) contains special characters. Use of these characters is not recommended. Renaming downlevel logon name to SpecChar10120'.

cause
By design, Domain Migration Administrator converts special characters to zeros ' 0 ' during the migration.

fix
Identify accounts with special characters as recommended in Chapter 2 of the DMA User Guide.

Formerly known as NETIQKB9259