Re: Cert Authority DB is Damaged

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/12/05 

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:23:51 -0700

Unfortunately since you do not have a backup, there may be little you can do
to recover. this is a rare instance - I have only heard of 1 or 2 cases of a
damaged database iin 5+ years. You may be able to try running eseutil.exe
which is typically found with exchange server installations. 

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"Charlie" <Charlie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:F0284061-10BF-4A0F-B1A1-2EC00ECD7771@microsoft.com...
>I have an AD integrated subordinate Certificate Authority.  As of recently,
> the service won't run at startup and when I try to start the CA manually, 
> I
> get the error message "The database is damaged".
> I don't have a System State backup for the server and I haven't backed up
> the CA separately.
> Is there some way to repair or otherwise get back the CA DB?
>
> Thanks.

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