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0x8009400F: CERTSRV_E_NO_DB_SESSIONS

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x8009400F = 2,148,089,871 = -2146877425

HRESULT 0x8009400F

CERTSRV_E_NO_DB_SESSIONS

An attempt was made to open a Certification Authority database session, but there are already too many active sessions. The server may need to be configured to allow additional sessions.

Severity (bit 31)1: failure
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
NTSTATUS inside (bit 28)0
Facility9 (0x009) SECURITY
Code16399 (0x400F)