Client Authentication Certificate Request Fails: Object Doesn't Support This Property or Method

• Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

When you request a Client Authentication Certificate on the Certificate Enrollment Form from Microsoft Certificate Server, one of the following error messages may occur:

CERTIFICATE SERVER
You have submitted an empty string which indicates that an error has occurred on your machine. Please verify the data you have submitted is valid and that a PKCS10 is being correctly generated by your machine.

Error
A Runtime Error has occured.
Do you wish to Debug?
Line: 77
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method

CAUSE

This is a known issue with Xenroll.dll included with Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT version 4.0. For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

MORE INFORMATION

The problematic Xenroll.dll file is version 1, 0, 0, 1.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : NT4SP4Fix prodNT4OP 
Version           : winnt:4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbprb 

Last Reviewed: April 15, 1999