Microsoft KB Archive/312344

= Request for Certificate Is Denied and a &quot;The Request Subject Name Is Invalid or Too Long&quot; Error Message Occurs =

Article ID: 312344

Article Last Modified on 12/3/2007

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q312344



SYMPTOMS
If you enroll for a certificate, the request may be denied and you may receive the following error message:

The request subject name is invalid or too long. 0x80094001

In addition, the following message may be logged in the event log:

Certificate Services denied request  because the request subject name is invalid or too long. 0x80094991...



CAUSE
This issue can occur if the subject in the Name box matches the name of the certification authority (CA).



The subject's CN is string-compared and binary-compared to the issuer's name. If the full DN names are available, these names are compared before a certificate is issued. Comparison does not depend on the actual encoding of the characters in the subject's name.

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB312344

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.