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Windows Component Wizard May Not Work If the Administrator Account is in Many Groups

Article ID: 294272

Article Last Modified on 2/21/2007

APPLIES TO

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

This article was previously published under Q294272

SYMPTOMS

If the Administrator account is a member of many groups (more than 100), you may receive the following error message when you click on the Add/Remove Windows Components button from within Add/Remove Programs:

An error was detected while configuring Certificate Services. The Certificate Services Setup Wizard will need to be rerun to complete the configuration. You must be a member of the Administrators group. The operation completed successfully. 0x0 (0)

Once you click Ok, you may receive another error message:

An error was detected while configuring Certificate Services. The Certificate Services Setup Wizard will need to be rerun to complete the configuration. Certificate Services setup failed with the following error: The data area passed to a system call is too small. 0x8007007a (WIN32: 122)

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
   ------------------------------------------------------------  
 4/5/2001    11:21a     5.0.2195.3457   222,992  Certocm.dll

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

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

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