<div class="content" name="Ping2" uuid="26463dce-4b5d-4f4d-a2a9-5561f8af1f77"><p>The Ping2 method is used to determine if the <span><a href="c6451297-197d-4b4b-b786-3f3187b67b8f#gt_c925d5d7-a442-4ba4-9586-5f94ccec847a" data-linktype="relative-path">CA</a></span>
service is started and responding.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> HRESULT Ping2(
   [in, string, unique] wchar_t const* pwszAuthority
 );
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p><b>pwszAuthority: </b> See the <i>pwszAuthority</i>
definition in section <span><a href="faae1099-4b4f-463c-95b0-5962c9bf400e" data-linktype="relative-path">3.1.4.1.1</a></span>. </p><p>ICertAdminD2::Ping2 is as specified in <span><a href="../ms-wcce/446a0fca-7f27-4436-965d-191635518466" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-WCCE]</a></span>
section <span><a href="../ms-wcce/7345ed19-bb50-4984-ab22-35227610c6a4" data-linktype="relative-path">3.2.1.4.3.4</a></span>.</p></div>