Microsoft KB Archive/288397

= &quot;Cryptography Error 80090020&quot; Error Message When You Try to Start German-Language Terminal Server Licensing =

Article ID: 288397

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q288397



SYMPTOMS
When you set up a Windows 2000-based computer with Terminal Server Licensing installed in German, the following error messages may appear in Event Viewer after you run a pageheap utility, enable the License server, and then restart the computer:

Terminal Server Licensing cannot be started due to the following error - code cannot be imported in Cryptography - error 80090020

Terminal Server Licensing cannot be started due to the following error - Cryptography cannot be initialized

The service &quot;Terminal Server Licensing&quot; was terminated with the following server specific error 3221291009

You may also experience an access violation in which the computer stops responding. Also if you turn off the pageheap utility, the issue does not occur.



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

260910 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 03/29/2000 08:13p  5.0.2195.1391  144,656  Dssbase.dll 03/29/2000 08:13p  5.0.2195.1391  146,192  Dssenh.dll 02/06/2001 07:41p  5.0.2195.1391  164,112  Instdss5.dll 03/29/2000 08:13p  5.0.2195.1391  132,368  Rsabase.dll



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



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp2fix kbqfe kbhotfixserver KB288397

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