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Friday, August 28, 2009 9:55 PM

Vishal’s nuggets

Subscribe to Vishal’s blog at http://blogs.technet.com/vishalagarwal/ for real good certificate and CA management scripts. More posts to come …
Posted by MS2065 | 0 Comments
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:30 AM

Cross-forest certificate enrollment white paper update

We’ve just updated the Beta version of the cross-forest certificate enrollment white paper. In addition to fixing some of the bugs we had in the previous version, we’ve added sections around supporting selective authentication, enrollment web pages, and
Posted by alrad | 0 Comments
Sunday, August 23, 2009 8:47 PM

Creating self-signed certificates with a script

Here is a great post by one of my colleagues on how to create a self-signed certificate using PowerShell: http://blogs.technet.com/vishalagarwal/archive/2009/08/22/generating-a-certificate-self-signed-using-powershell-and-certenroll-interfaces.aspx .
Posted by alrad | 0 Comments
Friday, August 21, 2009 8:31 PM

Populate Subject Name for Offline Templates on Renew

Offline templates are certificate templates that require the subject name to be part of the certificate request. The certificate authority will use the subject name supplied in the request as the subject name of the certificate to issue. This is different
Posted by andrew.bernat | 0 Comments
Monday, August 17, 2009 10:12 PM

Updated Network Device Enrollment Service (aka SCEP) white paper

I have just updated this paper. Here is the latest draft: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=93875 . In this paper, we cover Network Device Enrollment Service that allows certificate enrollment through the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (
Posted by alrad | 0 Comments
Friday, August 14, 2009 4:06 PM

Extended Validation support for websites using internal certificates

The Active Directory team has published a new blog post how to configure Extended Validation support for websites using internal certificates .
Posted by MS2065 | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:34 PM

CA Performace testing

One of our collegues posted an interesting blog entry on CA scalability testing: http://blogs.technet.com/wincat/archive/2009/08/10/scale-testing-the-world-s-largest-pki-all-running-on-ws08r2-and-hyper-v.aspx . Alex Radutskiy Program Manager, Windows
Posted by alrad | 0 Comments
Sunday, August 09, 2009 7:38 PM

AD CS Installation is Crashing on x64 Platform

The following problem affects a Certification authority running on the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The problem does not occur on x86 (32-bit) platform of both operating systems. When installing a subordinate enterprise
Posted by dedsMilan | 0 Comments
Friday, August 07, 2009 4:24 PM

Understanding Key Archival

It came to my attention that there is little understanding regarding the relationship between archived private keys and Key Recovery Agent (KRA) certificates. With this blog post I would like to clarify what you can expect from the recovery mechanism
Posted by MS2065 | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:43 PM

How to create a web server SSL certificate manually

The Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) provide wizards in the administration user interface to request and install SSL certificates. With this blog post I want to explain how to request a SSL server
Posted by MS2065 | 2 Comments
 
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