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“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.