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How to clear the Certificate Services "failed requests" log Don Sherwood 03-16-2006
Posted by =?Utf-8?B?RG9uIFNoZXJ3b29k?= on March 16, 2006, 1:56 pm
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Windows 2000 Server, with Certificate Services installed. Some months ago, a
use was removed from the domain, but that user was specified in a couple of
the local policies on this server. Long story short, for the past several
months, there's been an entry added every 5 minutes to the "failed requests"
log seen in the Certification Authority mmc snap-in. Things have been
working, so I never noticed the problem until today. I have corrected it,
but am left with the problem that there are so many thousands of failed
requests in the log, it is virtually unusable. How do I clear that log?

Posted by Paul Adare on March 16, 2006, 2:32 pm
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> Windows 2000 Server, with Certificate Services installed. Some months ago, a
> use was removed from the domain, but that user was specified in a couple of
> the local policies on this server. Long story short, for the past several
> months, there's been an entry added every 5 minutes to the "failed requests"
> log seen in the Certification Authority mmc snap-in. Things have been
> working, so I never noticed the problem until today. I have corrected it,
> but am left with the problem that there are so many thousands of failed
> requests in the log, it is virtually unusable. How do I clear that log?
>

certutil -deleterow /?

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