HI,
I am using a Windows 2008 server, SP2 with the latest updates on. I am trying to use a .csr file that I have created on a 3rd party (Nextplane) system to create a certificate however when I try I get the error
Your Request Id is 0. The disposition message is "Error Parsing Request The request subject name is invalid or too long. 0x80094001 (-2146877439)"
I have tried both the "Submit new request" against the server in the CA snapin in MMC and also the method of using a "Router offline request template as suggested in this
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserversecurity/thread/1ba23ee0-3e69-45f2-a875-2f6206b13c9d/
I have checked the csr file using a online csr decoder and it looks OK as far as I can tell (this is a test setup on a private network so I'm not worried about the risk of using a online decoder). The decoder shows the 'Subject' line as having 78 characters, including spaces etc. As the server and domain names aren't excessive I don't think that this is unusually long.
Is this likely to be the length of the subject line causing the problem or is the problem something else and the subject length just a red herring?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Neil