you have entered an invalid wildcard sequence

[Polonius19]

I am trying to run windows update and a brand new install of SBS 2003.
I was trying to add the update sites to my Trusted site list, but no
matter what I try to add, I get an invalid wildcard error. I get the
error even when I don't have any wildcards in the address.

On a lark, I tried to add local sites to the local tab and even some
to the deny tab, always the same error, you have entered an invalid
wildcard sequence.

What gives? Any ideas.

This is on a brand new HP Proliant server. It has 4 GB of ram and
plenty of room on the hard drive.

PS: I also can't get WSUS to load. It installed okay, but when I'm in
the sever management console, the screen says "Loading", but never
actually does. I think the problems are related, but I'm currently
stuck on the first. Please help...

[Anthony [MVP]]

This sounds like a specific SBS problem. I would try in the SBS newsgroup,
Good luck,
Anthony,
http://www.airdesk.co.uk

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[Cory]

It's not isolated to SBS. I'm seeing the same problem on a new install of
Windows 2003 Standard R2 on a new HP Proliant DL360 G5. Did you you come
across any solution/workarounds?

I'm wondering if the HP-provided installation assistant CD may have
something to do with this. Thoughts?

[Cory]

OK, I found the source of the problem on my end. Microsoft KB259493
references removing invalid entries from
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/internetsettings/ZoneMap.

On my server, the local administrator account didn't have the "ZoneMap" key
so I added it and left it empty. Restarted IE and then I could add trusted
sites.

Hope this works for you too.