Details of the event with ID 5 of the source Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority

Event Source:	Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority
Event ID:	5 (0x5)
Event log:	Application
Event type:	Error
Symbolic Name:	MSG_BAD_REGISTRY
Event text (English):	Active Directory Certificate Services could not find required registry information. The Active Directory Certificate Services may need to be reinstalled.
Event text (German):	The required registry information could not be found. The Active Directory certificate services may need to be reinstalled.

Example events

Active Directory Certificate Services could not find required registry information. The Active Directory Certificate Services may need to be reinstalled.

Description

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Can occur if the installation of a certificate authority fails, e.g. if the private key could not be generated. See article "Installation of a certificate authority fails with error code "Bad Data. 0x80090005 (-2146893819 NTE_BAD_DATA)."" for more information.

Safety assessment

The security assessment is based on the three dimensions of confidentiality, integrity and availability.

No description has been written for this yet.

Microsoft rating

Microsoft evaluates this event in the Securing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Whitepaper with a severity score of "Low".

Related links:

• Overview of Windows events generated by the certification authority
• Overview of audit events generated by the Certification Authority

External sources

• Event ID 5 - AD CS Registry Settings (Microsoft)
• Securing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) (Microsoft)