“Group cannot be specified along with other identification conditions.”

// October 31st, 2008 // Windows Server Core 2008

While using server core yesterday I came across another interesting error.  I was attempting to update a firewall rule and I kept receiving this error:

“Group cannot be specified along with other identification conditions”

I double checked my spelling and syntax and everything looked right.  Take a look at the picture below, can you see my mistake?

It turns out it was actually a pretty dumb issue, but an easy one to overlook.  I had copy and pasted the command in from a webpage, and the quotes must have been Microsoft Word style quotes.  I deleted the quotes, re-ran the command, and success!  It’s a minor issue that was easy to overlook.  In this case it was quick to find and fix, but it reminded me of the days when I searched for an error in my .NET code only to see that two single quotes ”  looked like one ” double quote character.  It took forever to find the error because everything appeared right, but of course it wasn’t.

13 Responses to ““Group cannot be specified along with other identification conditions.””

  1. Jeroen says:
    August 17, 2009 at 5:07 am

    Thanks!!

    This was very usefull for me, i ran into the same problem.

  2. WS says:
    April 30, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    Of all the stupid errors…. thanks!

  3. Libor says:
    May 20, 2010 at 6:28 am

    THX man, same here:)

  4. SoupyC says:
    October 11, 2010 at 5:17 am

    Me too! Thanks for this! :)

  5. pete says:
    November 1, 2010 at 5:07 am

    thanks man !

  6. joes says:
    December 29, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    And here I was stumped. Much thanks for posting this.

  7. Abdurrahman says:
    January 13, 2011 at 11:09 am

    Thanks this really saved me

  8. Gerry says:
    January 23, 2011 at 10:55 pm

    OMG i feel DUMB!!!!!! Thoes quotes hit me everytime.

  9. Ashok says:
    February 1, 2011 at 12:45 am

    Thanks dude, It really saved my time.

  10. ed says:
    March 14, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    DoooH!
    Thanks!

  11. dave says:
    March 25, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    Thanks!

  12. xacobe says:
    May 12, 2011 at 4:42 am

    Thanks!! what a stupid thing, I spend two hours…

  13. magic_007 says:
    August 25, 2011 at 9:59 am

    Hey thanks a lot dude… i never thouhgt of it… COPY PASTE IS SO DANGEROUS…. :P

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