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Monday, November 09, 2009 1:16 PM

How Certificates Are Created

The following text is a simple copy/paste from the TechNet article How Certificates Work (section How Certificates are Created ). Why am I posting this information to the blog? Quite simple: I recognize that it is often overlooked that the key pair generation
Posted by MS2065 | 0 Comments
Saturday, November 07, 2009 11:30 PM

Certificate Revocation Checking Whitepaper

A whitepaper on Certificate Revocation Checking in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been publshed on Technet here - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee619730(WS.10).aspx Topics in this whitepaper include: · What’s new in Windows Vista
Posted by Yogesh Mehta | 0 Comments
Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:32 PM

Certificate Validation on Windows XP with Entrust SSP Issued HSPD-12 Certificates

On May 9 th , 2009 Entrust Managed Services (provider of HSPD-12 certificates) performed a key update ceremony on the Entrust Managed Services Root and SSP certification authorities. HSPD-12 certificates issued after May 9 th , 2009 will not work on the
Posted by oshekel | 0 Comments
Tuesday, October 06, 2009 11:13 PM

BranchCache Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

A new deployment guide was published on Windows7 BranchCache. It covers the PKI requirements for this feature along with other deployment procedures. The full guide can be found here: BranchCache Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows
Posted by oshekel | 0 Comments
Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:10 AM

Introducing Certificate Template API

WARNING: USE OF THE SAMPLE CODE PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Microsoft provides this sample code "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or
Posted by alrad | 0 Comments
Friday, September 18, 2009 5:24 PM

Using VBScript to install CA on WS2008R2 server core

In my previous post I provided a script used for setup and installation of a CA using VBScript. The same script is capable of installing a CA on server core, where there is no UI available for installing. With the script and a few possible additional
Posted by shawncor | 0 Comments
Friday, September 18, 2009 5:23 PM

Automated CA installs using VB script on Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2 [UPDATED]

Starting with Windows Server 2008 the CA product team introduced a set of COM objects that can be used to control the installation of CAs. Using VBScript you can quickly automate the setup and installation of a CA.Below is a script that is being used
Posted by shawncor | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): setupca.vbs
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:09 AM

Official Microsoft Team Blogs / Microsoft Blogs

If you are interested in reading more official Microsoft Team blogs, see http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/pages/directory-of-microsoft-team-blogs.aspx . This page is a great collection of valuable blog information.
Posted by MS2065 | 0 Comments
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:49 AM

Certificate Enrollment Web Services Whitepaper

The Windows Server 2008 R2 Certificate Enrollment Web Services Whitepaper has been posted to the download center: you can download it here . This is just the initial document release for RTM.  We plan to publish the content to various Technet locations
Posted by JField | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:03 AM

How to get request statistics by template in PowerShell

I’ve been working with our support folks helping one of our customers. One of the things we wanted to learn about the environment is how many requests have been made for each certificate template that they issue. We have come up with this PowerShell script
Posted by alrad | 0 Comments
Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:04 AM

Active Directory Certificate Services Features by SKU

We’ve had many requests for what services and features are available in what Windows Server version and SKU.   The table below is our attempt to answer those questions. SKU Table (NOTE: entire table describes what is available in an Enterprise
Posted by JField | 0 Comments
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
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