"All my love's in vain." - "Love in Vain" , Robert Johnson (1911-1938) Hey folks, We know if you read this blog you love to find answers to all your Active Directory questions in our documentation on Microsoft.com. But before you can do that, you have to be able find it. As many of you know, that...

You may have already seen that you can deploy most Windows Server 2012 role services with Windows PowerShell. If you are interested in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), you've probably noticed the PowerShell commands for deploying all six available CA roles: AD CS Deployment Cmdlets in Windows...

One of the favorite ice breakers for computer geek get-together is to talk about your first computer. Hey, I still remember the TRS 80 (who people in the know call it the Trash80). If you liked something and you are proud of it and still refer to it as trash, well… So, I am usually sucked into that conversation...

I was recently alerted to the situation that not all of our Microsoft customers have adjusted their language based on the new branding of Active Directory to include more than just Active Directory Domain Services. For example, people might just be searching for Certificate Services, when we now call...

A few updates were just posted, so I am putting out an FYI post. I should do this more often, so I will! Anyways, here goes: 1. Slowly, but surely, the AD CS documentation is being consolidated into a single download center page: Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...

An important security update, described in MS11-051 ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=217101 ) was released today. The update fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the sample web enrollment ASP pages that are part of Active Directory Certificate Services Web Enrollment in Windows Server...

If you have heard of Certificates Next Generation (silly name, I know), which is why people call them V3 templates at Microsoft most of the time, then you might wonder or already know that there could be some compatibility issues - the same is true for all "new" things. Just like my new office power...

I am really trying to make this TechNet Wiki article PKI Design Brief Overview a place from which we can answer the basic questions regarding PKI design and then point off to the more detailed information. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/pki-design-brief-overview.aspx Feel...

If you have trouble with Certificate Autoenrollment or have ever had issues troubleshooting certificate autoenrollment in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), take a look at the notes compiled by Roger Grimes and turned into a TechNet Wiki article: Troubleshooting Certificate Autoenrollment...

I just went through and updated 16 or more resources that were posted online a while ago regarding Windows Server 2003. Seems there was not enough context with the information that was appearing in TechNet regarding the Certificates Console (certmgr.msc). I also realized that the information would be...

Be sure that you've planned your PKI . Then, see Offline Root CA . del.icio.us Tags: Active Directory Certificate Services , AD CS design , installing AD CS , PKI design , CA hierarchy , installing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS)

To get the answer to that and other questions, like "How do I patch an offline root CA?" see the new TechNet Wiki article Offline Root Certification Authority (CA). del.icio.us Tags: certification authority , CA , AD CS , Active Directory Certificate Services , PKI Design , offline root CA , CA hierarchy...