{"id":8825,"date":"2025-04-30T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=8825"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:12:05","slug":"ndes-app-service-crashing-on-starting-certsrv-mscep-mscep-dll-returning-iis-503-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/ndes-app-service-crashing-on-starting-certsrv-mscep-mscep-dll-returning-iis-503-error","title":{"rendered":"NDES App Service crashing on starting \/certsrv\/mscep\/mscep.dll Returning IIS 503 Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-34-1024x245.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8827 img-responsive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-34-1024x245.png 1024w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-34-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-34-768x184.png 768w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-34.png 1442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code class=\"\">The identity of application pool SCEP is invalid. The user name or password that is specified for the identity may be incorrect, or the user may not have batch logon rights. If the identity is not corrected, the application pool will be disabled when the application pool receives its first request.  If batch logon rights are causing the problem, the identity in the IIS configuration store must be changed after rights have been granted before Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) can retry the logon. If the identity remains invalid after the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled. The data field contains the error number.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like a group policy was setting all this so we had to add the NDESERVICE Account to it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8826 img-responsive\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-33.png 560w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-33-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like a group policy was setting all this so we had to add the NDESERVICE Account to it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8825\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}