6903 » Your Windows 2000 SP4 server event log records 'Certificate Services did not start', but it did start, and runs normally? 30-Jun-03

Your Application event log contains:

Event Type: Information 
Event Source: CertSvc 
Event Category: None 
Event ID: 42 
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A 
Computer: Servername
Description: Certificate Services did not start: Could not build CA certificate chain xxxx.
             A certificate chain processed correctly, but terminated in a root certificate
             which is not trusted by the trust provider. 0x800b0109 (-2146762487). 


Event Type: Information 
Event Source: CertSvc 
Event Category: None 
Event ID: 58 
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A 
Computer: Servername
Description: Certificate Services did not start: A certificate in the CA certificate chain
            for xxxx has expired. A required certificate is not within its validity period
            when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed
            file. 0x800b0101 (-2146762495). 

Event Type: Warning 
Event Source: CertSvc 
Event Category: None 
Event ID: 51 
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A 
Computer: Servername
Description: Certificate Services did not start: A certificate in the CA certificate chain 
             for xxxx has been revoked. 0x800B010C (-2146762484). 

Event Type: Information 
Event Source: CertSvc 
Event Category: None 
Event ID: 26 
Date: date
Time: time
User: N/A 
Computer: Servername
Description: Certificate Services for xxxx was started.

Your only workaround is to ignore the Certificate Services did not start portion of the event description for events that are logged during the CA certificate chain-verification process.

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