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CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED
CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED The request lacks one or more issuance policies that the certificate template requires for approval.
What to check for CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED
- Determine which issuance-policy OIDs the template requires and which signing or requester certificate should provide them.
- Check the enrollment-agent or registration-authority certificate for the required issuance policies.
- Treat policy OIDs as authorization controls; do not substitute unrelated OIDs just to satisfy a string comparison.
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Diagnostic interpretation of CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED
CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED has the HRESULT value 0x8009480C. AllStat records the condition as “The request is missing one or more required signature issuance policies.”. For CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED, in practice, interpret that wording at the boundary owned by Active Directory Certificate Services enrollment and CA policy, rather than treating the value as a generic Windows message.
Evidence to capture for CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED
- Record the exact COM method or Windows API, its input object, the calling thread, and the full 0x8009480C value before a wrapper converts it to an exception or Boolean result.
- Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED or the certsrv / issuance / policy / required operation.
- Reproduce CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED with the smallest valid input and note whether the result changes with identity, architecture, service state, or target object.
Retry and recovery for CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED
Retry CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “The request is missing one or more required signature issuance policies.” has changed. For CERTSRV_E_ISSUANCE_POLICY_REQUIRED, configuration, policy, format, and authorization failures normally require correction first; an immediate loop can hide the original call site and add secondary errors.
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