Re: EFS Certificate Needed

You need to:
1) determine which certificate was the recovery agent. (use EFSINFO or the General tab advanced button to find the thumbprint of the certificate
2) You need to determine who the certificate was issued to.
3) You need to log on at the computer where the certificate was generated as the user that received the certificate
4) You need to check whether the certificate is still in that user's profile (Certmgr.msc)
5) You can then export it and import it to the computer where you want to perform the recovery process.

You cannot inject in a efs recovery agent certificate without having either the previous recovery agent certificate and private key or the user efs certificate and private key.

Brian

"HonoredWriter" <honoredwriter@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:29109205-2BD1-4FB3-9465-1F84B2DAD118@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
How do I obtain a Recovery Agent certificate to recover/restore/decrypt some
previously encripted files? The certificates I have are not worthy to be
Recovery Agent certificates even though their intended purposes are clearly
stated. ( Shucks, I'm thinking this computer has intuitive intelligence.)
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HonoredWriter

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