JSI Tip 1595. Event 17, Certificate Server did not start ......

Jerold Schulman

September 2, 1999

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If you receive:

Source: CertSvcEvent ID: 17Description: "The Certificate Server did not start: Unable to initialize              the database connection for CA COMPUTERNAME.              The error code is 0xffffffff."

the CertSrv ODBC data source has not been created.

If you are running an unattented setup, let it complete.

To create the data source, run regedit /s foldercertsrv.reg where certsrv.reg contains the following:

REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREODBCodbc.iniCertSrv]"Driver"="C:\WINNT\System32\odbcjt32.dll""DBQ"="C:\WINNT\System32\CertLog\certsrv.mdb""DriverId"=dword:00000019"SafeTransactions"=dword:00000000"UID"="Admin"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREODBCodbc.iniCertSrvEnginesJet]"ImplicitCommitSync"="Yes""Threads"=dword:00000003"UserCommitSync"="Yes" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREODBCodbc.iniODBC Data Sources]"CertSrv"="Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)" 

NOTE: You must alter the Driver and DBQ paths for your installation.

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