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'Element not Found' when using EFS on Windows 2008

Our PKI is Windows 2016 with ADDS forest/domain functional level at 2008 R2. When attempting to encrypt a file on a Domain joined Windows 2008 (not R2!) machine we received the following:

'Element not found'

Our recovery agent is in place and we have no issues on Windows 2008R2 or above. From troubleshooting this only occurs is KSP is used as the cryptographic provider in the PKI template. If we use the legacy provider in the template the file encrypts without issues.

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Hello @shockoMS,
Would you please tell me how things are going on your side. If you have any questions or concerns about the information I provided, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Thanks for your time and have a nice day!

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Hello @shockoMS,
I just want to confirm the current situations.
Please feel free to let us know if you need further assistance.


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DaisyZhou-MSFT answered

Hello @shockoMS,

Thank you for posting here.

From the following link, we can see in Windows 2008, EFS use a CAPI Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP).

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For more information, we can refer to link below.

Cryptography Next Generation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc730763(v=ws.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN



Hope the information above is helpful.

Should you have any question or concern, please feel free to let us know.


Best Regards,
Daisy Zhou



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