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Nixphoe
Asked: 2013-03-16 08:16:20 +0800 CST

Certificate Error on Server 2008 R2 Event ID 6 and 13

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I have two DC, one is a Windows Server 2003 (certificate server), the other is Windows Server 2008 R2. The Windows Server 2008 R2 has the following events in the event viewer.

Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-AutoEnrollment
Event ID: 6
Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed (0x800706ba) The RPC server is unavailable.

And

Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificateServicesClient-CertEnroll
Event ID: 13
Certificate enrollment for Local system failed to enroll for a DomainController certificate with request ID N/A from 2003DCinternal.domain.com\DOMAIN-Root-CA.domain.com (The RPC server is unavailable. 0x800706ba (WIN32: 1722)).

I've read a few things over the internet: Certificate enrollment for Local system failed to enroll Event ID:13 Seems to indicate that I should check if I already have a certificate installed. I open the Certificates MMC Snap-in on the 2008 R2 server having the errors and go to Personal > Certificates. From there I see a certificate for localhost issued by localhost (could that indicate a part of my problem?).

I've also seen other stuff indicating that 2003 servers can not generate the correct certificates for 2003 or Windows 7 computers.

Other than that Google doesn't really have any thing that solidly explains what the issue is.

Could someone help me understand how to troubleshoot this?

windows-server-2003

1 Answers

  1. You might find the following link useful as a troubleshooting reference http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2007/11/06/how-to-troubleshoot-certificate-enrollment-in-the-mmc-certificate-snap-in.aspx .

    Incidentally, the self signed cert issued by localhost is not the problem.

    Personally, I'd take a network trace from the 2008 R2 DC while manually trying to enrol for a cert using the MMC from the 2008R2 DC and see how far you get.

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