System Catalog Database Integrity

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The system catalog database is used with the cryptographic services provided by the operating system to ensure that the Windows system files have not been changed. This is done by comparing the digital signature of a system file to the digital signature stored in the system catalog database. If the signatures do not match, the file is replaced with a copy of the file located on this computer with the correct signature.

Events

Event ID Source Message

256

Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2

The Cryptographic Services service failed to initialize the Catalog Database. The error was: %1 : %2.

257

Microsoft-Windows-CAPI2

The Cryptographic Services service failed to initialize the Catalog Database. The ESENT error was: %1.

CryptoAPI 2.0

Core Security