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Posted by Gopi on August 6, 2005, 10:05 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options Microsoft says that if you use non-International Alphabet 5 characters in
the names of Windows 2000 computers, the Certificate Services Setup won't
work. They may fix this limitation in the future, but for now, stick to IA5
characters.
"Jardyus" <yussilATjunoDOT(REMOVE ALL CAPS)com> wrote in message
> Hello.
> I am getting a very odd error message when I try to start the Certificate
> Services service. I get an error message saying "Catastrophic failure
> Unexpected method call sequence. 0x8000ffff (-2147418113)". When I check
> the Event log, in the Application Log I get error ID 17. The complete
> error message is:
> Event Type: Error
> Event Source: CertSvc
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 17
> Date: 8/3/2005
> Time: 11:54:06 AM
> User: N/A
> Computer: <server>
> Description:
> Certificate Services did not start: Unable to initialize the database
> connection for <CAserver>. Catastrophic failure Unexpected method call
> sequence. 0x8000ffff (-2147418113).
>
> For more information, see Help and Support Center at
> http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
>
> I have tried doing a repair install of Windows, uninstalling and
> reinstalling Certificate Services countless times, manually deleting the
> CertLog and CerSrv folders and all of the certificates created. However,
> for some reason, I cannot figure this out. Any help is appreciated. Thank
> you.
>
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