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EFS issues

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supportahm1980

Technical User
May 30, 2006
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Hello all. I wanted to encrypt a file this morning and received this error on my XP workstation:
Recovery policy configured for this system contains invalid recovery certificate.

I tried on another machine and received the same error.

Next I checked my default domain policy
Computer config-> Security settings->public key polices->encrypting file system.

It showed a certificate the is expired that was issued to administrator

I am wondering how this originally got there? Is this what the domain uses to encrypt files?

When I right click in the GP I have several options but do not know what to use.
1) Add Data Recovery Agent
2) Create Data Recovery Agent

I am very confusing on what these two mean. Should I delete the expired one?

thanks for any insight.
 
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