Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
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KERBEROS LOCAL KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTER START PENDING ...
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Karel Grulich
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Hello,
I have built three brand new Windows 2025 Servers with the latest updates.
On all three of them I see that the service KERBEROS LOCAL KEY DISTRIBUTION CENTER START PENDING but it never turns into the RUNNING STATE. If I try to manually start the service, all the options are greyed out.
I'm not sure if this is just a glitch the service showing as starting but it is actually running as I don't notice any issues with the server etc. but maybe there is something wrong. I'm just worried that once I remove my old Windows 2019 server where all the services are running fine, that I could start having issues with user authentication or similar.
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