Tag: 0x80004005

The Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) logs the error message "The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot be started (0x80004005). Unspecified error"

Assume the following scenario:

  • An NDES server is configured on the network.
  • When accessing the NDES request web page (mscep) and the NDES administration web page (certsrv/mscep_admin), HTTP error 500 (Internal Server Error) is reported with error code 0x80004005.
  • Events No. 2 and No. 8 are logged in the application event log:
The Network Device Enrollment Service cannot be started (0x80004005). Unspecified error

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