October 2021 - Uwe Gradenegger

Manual assignment of a Remote Desktop certificate fails with error message "Invalid parameter".

Assume the following scenario:

A Manually requested Remote Desktop certificate should be on a computer be assigned to the remote desktop session host.
The operation fails with the following error message:

Set-WMIInstance : Invalid parameter
 At line:1 char:1
 Set-WMIInstance -path $TerminalServicesConfig.__path -argument @{SSLC ...
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Set-WmiInstance], ManagementException
 FullyQualifiedErrorId : SetWMIManagementException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SetWmiInstance

When restoring a certification authority, the certification authority certificate is not selectable during role installation

Assume the following scenario:

A Certification Authority will migrated to another server or restored from backup.
A Thales (nCipher) hardware security module (HSM) is used to protect the private key of the certification authority certificate. Security World is configured with Operator Card Set (OCS) Protection.
The Certification Authority certificate was successfully restored and associated with the private key stored on the HSM..
When installing the certification authority role, the restored certification authority certificate cannot be selected.

Installation of a certificate authority certificate fails with error message "Object was not found. 0x80090011 (-2146893807 NTE_NOT_FOUND)".

Assume the following scenario:

A new certification authority is installed.
After configuring the certification authority role and issuing the certification authority certificate, it should now be installed on the certification authority.
A hardware security module (HSM) is used to protect the private key of the certification authority certificate.
The installation of the certificate authority certificate fails with the following error message:

An error was detected while configuring Active Directory Certificate Services.
The Active Directory Certificate Services Setup Wizard will need to be rerun to complete the configuration.
The new certificate public key does not match the current outstanding request.
The wrong request may have been used to generate the new certificate: Object was not found. 0x80090011 (-2146893807 NTE_NOT_FOUND)

Reconnecting to the private key fails with error message "Cannot find object or property. 0x80092004 (-2146885628 CRYPT_E_NOT_FOUND)"

Assume the following scenario:

A Certification Authority will migrated to another server or restored from backup.
A hardware security module (HSM) is used to protect the private key of the certification authority certificate.
The certification authority certificate should now be installed on the target system. be restored and linked to the private key.
The operation fails with the following error message:

Cannot find the certificate and private key for decryption.
CertUtil: -repairstore command FAILED: 0x80092004 (-2146885628 CRYPT_E_NOT_FOUND)
CertUtil: Cannot find object or property.

Installation of the default certificate templates fails with error message "This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object."

Assume the following scenario:

For the first time, a certification authority (Enterprise Certification Authority) integrated into Active Directory is to be installed in the network.
The rights to install the certificate authority have been delegated to a separate security group or account for security reasons, so no Enterprise Administrator login is required. Put another way: The user used is not a member of the Enterprise Administrators group in the Active Directory forest.
Since this is the first certification authority in the network, no Standard certificate templates installed in the Active Directory. When opening the certificate template management console (certtmpl.msc), one is prompted to install it.
The installation fails with the following error message:

Windows could not install the new certificate templates. This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object.