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MSMQ Err: Error While Creating MSMQ Internal Certificate. Error: 0x8000ffff

Article ID: 230050 - View products that this article applies to.

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SYMPTOMS

When you click Renew Internal Certificate in the Microsoft Message Queue Control Panel tool on February 29 of a leap year (for example, the year 2000, 2004, 2008, and so on), the following error message is displayed:

Error while creating MSMQ internal certificate. Error: 0x8000ffff

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CAUSE

The Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) program submits a request to set the expiration date of the newly created certificate to 10 years; however, MSMQ does not take into account leap years when it determines the expiration date. For example, if you create a certificate on February 29, 2004, MSMQ attempts to set the expiration date to February 29, 2014. This is an invalid date because it is not a leap year.

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RESOLUTION

Mqrt.dll has been modified to request a validity of eight years rather than 10.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

152734

(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152734/EN-US/ )

How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

If you are running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4:

In addition to installing the latest service pack, you can find this software update at the following Internet location as Msmqfixi.exe (x86) and Msmqfixa.exe (Alpha):

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/nt40/hotfixes-postsp4/y2k/msmq-fix/

(ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/usa/NT40/hotfixes-postSP4/Y2K/MSMQ-fix/)

To determine if a localized version of this software update is available, change ""USA"" in the URL above to the appropriate localized abbreviation. Click here

(ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/fixes/readme.txt)

for a list of these abbreviations.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Message Queue Server 1.0. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5.

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