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Q262979: Cannot Renew Verisign Certificates in IIS 5.0

Article: Q262979
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): 2000,5.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbWin2000SP2Fix
Last Modified: 17-JUN-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server 
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server 
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SYMPTOMS
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If you attempt to renew an SSL certificate from Verisign, the renewal with
Verisign fails.

CAUSE
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Windows 2000 Professional, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2000 Advanced Server
generate PKCS7-formated renewals, which Verisign does not accept.

RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For
additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:

  Q260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or
later:

  Date       Time      Version       Size    File name    Platform
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  10-02-2000 1:35:53PM 5.0.2195.2399 200,976 Certwiz.ocx  x86


STATUS
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Internet Information Services
5.0. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

MORE INFORMATION
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This fix changes the behavior in Windows 2000, so that it generates
PKCS10-formatted renewal requests.


Additional query words:

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Keywords          : kbWin2000SP2Fix 
Technology        : kbwin2000AdvServ kbwin2000AdvServSearch kbwin2000Serv kbwin2000ServSearch kbwin2000Search kbwin2000ProSearch kbwin2000Pro kbiisSearch kbiis500 kbWinAdvServSearch
Version           : :2000,5.0
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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