> "Thomas R Grassi Jr" <thomasgrassi[ at ]hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:OOQsIevZJHA.1964[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>
>> I get this error every so often and have no idea what to do with
>> it
>>
>> My workstation is Windows XP Pro Sp3 logging into a Windows 2003
>> R2 Standard DC Server SP2
>>
>> I have looked up this error and have had no luck in a resolution .
>>
>>
>> Event Type: Error
>> Event Source: Schannel
>> Event Category: None
>> Event ID: 36882
>> Date: 12/25/2008
>> Time: 8:01:10 AM
>> User: N/A
>> Computer: TGKW001
>> Description:
>> The certificate received from the remote server was issued by an
>> untrusted certificate authority. Because of this, none of the data
>> contained in the certificate can be validated. The SSL connection
>> request has failed. The attached data contains the server
>> certificate.
>>
>
> When establishing a secure connection to another machine using the
> Secure Socket Layer (SSL), part of the process is to obtain a
> certificate from the other machine that contains (among other things)
> the remote server's public key used to encrypt outgoing
> communications. To establish trust that this remote machine is
> legitimately who it claims to be, the key/certificate is digitally
> signed by a signature "authority" that is also trusted by your
> machine. This error indicates that your machine could not find a
> signature on the certificate that it trusts.
>
> This could be caused by the remote machine creating its own
> certificate and failing to have it signed/verified by a recognized
> root authority.
>
> Another cause could be that your machine hasn't updated its list of
> root authorities for a while and its list is out of date. Normally
> this happens automatically but it can be disabled by group policy or
> by removing/disabling the "Update Root Certificates" Windows
> component. You may find some helpful info in the following Microsoft
> Article:
>
> "Certificate Support and the Update Root Certificates Component"
> <
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457160.aspx>>
> HTH,
> John
>