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Details of the event with ID 22 of the source Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority

Event Source:Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority
Event ID:22 (0x16)
Event log:Application
Event type:Error
Symbolic Name:MSG_E_PROCESS_REQUEST_FAILED_WITH_INFO
Event text (English):Active Directory Certificate Services could not process request %1 due to an error: %2. The request was for %3. Additional information: %4
Event text (German):Die Anforderung %1 konnte aufgrund eines Fehlers nicht ausgeführt werden: %2. Die Anforderung bezog sich auf %3. Weitere Informationen: %4

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Allowed Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) in the Subject of Issued Certificates

In principle, RFC 5280 allows the use of arbitrary strings in the subject distinguished name (DN) of a certificate. Common fields are described in the X.520 standard. The length restrictions are also recommended by the ITU-T . The abbreviations commonly used today are mainly taken from RFC 4519 .

However, Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services only allows certain RDNs by default.

The following Relative Distinguished Names (RDNs) are accepted by the Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) certification authority by default:

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