KB171136 - ODBC Error Accessing Certificate Server Administration Tools

Article ID: 171136

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 3.0
Microsoft Certificate Server 1.0

This article was previously published under Q171136

We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

The first time you connect to the Web-based Certificate Log Utility or the Certificate Queue Utility, you will get the following error message:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found
and no default driver specified.

RESOLUTION

Stop the Certificate Authority Service and then stop the WWW Service. Then restart the WWW Service followed by the Certificate Authority Service. The error should no longer appear.

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