Symptoms

Steps that run external scripts (scripts stored in a file outside of adTempus) may fail with the following error:

Failed to start the job host process "adtjobhost.exe": unknown error (201).

This problem only occurs if the script file name contains spaces or punctuation.

Cause

The adTempus service launches a host process to execute the script and passes it the name of the script file to execute on the command line. The service fails to enclose the script name in quotes, resulting in a command-line parsing error in the script host process.

Status

This issue was corrected in a maintenance update released on June 30, 2008. See article K00000316 for information about obtaining this update.