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Greetings! This is Jonathan again. I was reviewing Chris’ excellent blog post series on designing and implementing a PKI when I realized that it would be helpful to better document the CAPolicy.inf file. The information in this post relies heavily on
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Implementation Phases and Certificate Authority Installation Chris here again. In Part I of this series we covered design considerations for implementing a PKI. In this part of the series I will cover the steps required to implement a PKI. We will cover
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Chris here again. This time I have a quick post. For those looking for reasons to either implement a PKI or potentially upgrade a PKI to Windows Server 2008 R2, the Standard Edition now supports Version 2 and 3 templates. Prior to Windows Server 2008
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Chris here again. This is part of a five part series. In Part I, I will cover design considerations, and planning for deploying a PKI. When implementing a PKI planning is the most important phase, and you can prevent a lot of issues by properly planning
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Hey all Rob here again. One feature that that is new with Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows 7 is the ability to configure your internal certification authority hierarchy in order to issue certificates that can show as Extended Validation certificates. So
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Good morning world, Paul Fragale here to bring you the latest trend in smart card logon requests. Some people have been reading on our TechNet pages, such as Smart Card Authentication Changes , about the ability to allow users to have one smart card,
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Chris here again. In part I of this series we covered the basics of how OCSP works. We also covered the underlying reasons for deploying an OCSP Responder. In Part II we covered configuring the Certificate Authorities for whom which the OCSP Responder
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Chris here again. As promised I will be covering configuring an OCSP Responder to support Enterprise CA. I will also be covering validating your OCSP Configuration. Installing OCSP Responder Role The first step is to install the OCSP Responder Role. To
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Chris here again. In Part I we covered some of the basics and background information on the reason for the OCSP Responder and a basic understanding of how the OCSP Responder functions. So now we look towards implementing the OCSP Responder. However, before
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Chris here again. For those Security Architects and PKI implementers, you may have known that since Windows Server 2008 we have an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responder, and since Windows Vista we have an OCSP client that is integrated with
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Hi all, Rob here again. I had a case recently where the customer wanted to have the Windows Server 2008 Certificate Authority website loaded on another machine. For those of you that do not know, you can install the Windows Server 2008 CA web site pages
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Hey ladies and gents, Sean here again. Recently I ran into an issue with Windows Server 2003 that caused the Certificate Template Manager to hang. I’ll discuss the problem and provide solutions so you don’t get stuck wondering what’s going on if this
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Hi. Jim here again from the Directory Services team. Today I will break down some of the core components of credential roaming and how it functions. To secure critical transactions such as signing, encrypting, and decrypting e-mail or authenticating identity,
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Hi, Mike here. The following issue is one that I have seen come up from time to time and can be a challenge for IT administrators who are trying to use the built in Version 2 Domain Controller Authentication template in their environment. The concern
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James Carr here and I would like to discuss creating custom certificate request in Windows Vista. When requesting certificates from a Windows 2000/2003 Enterprise Certification Authority, we will use one of the built-in certificate templates. Certificate
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