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Certificate Request Processor: The system cannot find the file specified

19 Jan

What does this error mean?

c:\Users\Administrator\Documents>certreq.exe -submit -attrib "CertificateTemplate:WebServer" certreq.req
Active Directory Enrollment Policy
{9C38F712-49F4-45FB-AD5E-F44BFE9BAB92}
ldap:
Certificate Request Processor: The system cannot find the file specified. 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2)

It means the Active Directory Certificate Services role isn’t installed. Install that and your problem will go away.
ADCertificateServicesRole

 
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  1. Ravi

    21 October 2013 at 11:17 pm

    Hey i too get the same error.. Lab environemnet 1. Had setup Activedirectory domain controller 2. windows 2008 r2 member server on this i tried to install the site server signing certificate it shows an error message Certificate Request Processor: The system cannot find the file specified. 0x80070002 (WIN32: 2)- Do you have any solution. Could you please let me know.

    Thanks,
    Brk

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    • Nathan

      22 October 2013 at 11:53 am

      Hello Ravi, yeah sounds like the error message I got, have you tried installing the Active Directory Certificate Services role like I mentioned in my post?

      I’ve updated my post to include a image of me installing the role.

      If you have done this step, I’m not sure, my research showed this to be the reason for that error message. Have you any more information?

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