Event 36888: The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 1203

eventviewerwindows-event-logwindows-server-2008

I've searched online, but am unable to find any information; why this error is occurring?

It has flooded my Event Viewer: with an interval of 1 minute, this Error keeps popping up. (i.e. the frequency is 1 minute)

I don't have any IIS installed.

This server is purely a Domain controller and no other role has been added.

Please suggest what should I do?

Server OS – Window Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition.

More details:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Schannel
Date:          6/28/2012 6:06:11 PM
Event ID:      36888
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      QKSRVDC212.Corp.abc.com
Description:
The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 1203.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Schannel" Guid="{1F678132-5938-4686-9FDC-C8FF68F15C85}" />
    <EventID>36888</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-06-28T12:36:11.801245500Z" />
    <EventRecordID>9305</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="524" ThreadID="3516" />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>QKSRVDC212.Corp.abc.com</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="AlertDesc">10</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorState">1203</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Best Answer

I realize that you are not running IIS, but it appears other processes can cause this error message as well.

This might help:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winserverDS/thread/4c5430f5-43f6-41b4-97d3-03cfb3efa70b