We moved from a SBS 2003 Server to a SBS 2008 server relatively recently because the SBS 2003 was having major hardware issues. I followed the Migration guide to the letter and everything seemed to go smooth. Until after this last update. I noticed that AD Certificate service was not started... I started it and it stopped immediately. So I went to Certification Authority MMC and tried to start the service from there and got the following:
Error 0xxc8000147 (ESE: -327)
So went to the error log and here the associated log:
Log Name: Application Source:
Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthorityDate: 5/23/2011 7:29:42 AM
Event ID: 17
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: SYSTEM
Computer: *********.**********.lan
Description: Active Directory Certificate Services did not start: Unable to initialize the database connection for **********-*********-CA. Error 0xc8000147 (ESE: -327).
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority"
Guid="{6A71D062-9AFE-4F35-AD08-52134F85DFB9}"
EventSourceName="CertSvc" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49754">17</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-05-23T14:29:42.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>1513838</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>******.**********.lan</Computer>
<Security UserID="*****" />
</System>
<EventData Name="MSG_E_DB_INIT_FAILED">
<Data Name="CACommonName">*********-*********-CA</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">Error 0xc8000147 (ESE: -327)</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
I have been searching for solutions to this issue and really haven't found anything related to the error code for CA services.