Guest Umesh Posted May 20, 2008 Posted May 20, 2008 Hi: I have Windows Server 2003 sp1. I had installed Certificate Services and it was working fine for me. It suddenly stopped working and not if I try to start the service I get "Certificate Services did not start: Unable to initialize the database connection for <CAserver>. Catastrophic failure Unexpected method call sequence. 0x8000ffff". I tried various tricks mentioned at http://www.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/microsoft.public.windows.server.security/2005-08/0062.html and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190059. But I am still getting the same error. When I uninstall and reinstall the certificate services, the service does start but then I can't access the certificate by clicking "properties". I get "Access Denied" error. To resolve that I tried setting the permissions correctly, but for the permissions to be applied, I have to restart the services and if I do that the service doesn't start giving the "Catastrophic error". I have been struggling with this for quite sometime. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -Umesh.
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