Posts Tagged ‘ca’
Free tool : Windows 2003/2008 Certificate Authority Certificate List Utility for pending requests and about-to-expire certificates
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In one of my earlier posts, I have talked about setting up a Windows 2008 based Certificate Authority/PKI. Once your Windows 2008 CA setup is in place and configured, you can go ahead and starting issuing certificates. But at the same time, you need to put a maintenance/management procedure in place so you can stay on top of certain tasks, such as processing pending certificate requests or identify certificates that will expire and need manual renewal. Unfortunately there is no easy way to get notified when new requests are pending, or certificates will expire somewhere in the future. I wrote a small script that will help you putting in place this maintenance process. This free utility requires .Net framework and requires proper permissions to connect to the CA admin interface. It uses the Windows Server 2003, …
Windows 2008 PKI / Certificate Authority (AD CS) basics
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Keywords : Windows 2008 PKI Certificate Authority certutil certreq template root CA Enterprise CA convert pfx to pem generate custom certificate request subject alternate name san attribute Today’s blog post targets the deployment of a Windows 2008 server based Certificate Authority (AD CS) and will discuss some common scenario’s where certificates are used / required. Finally, I will show some scripts that can be used to manage your CA, backup your CA, distribute CRL’s, create custom certificate requests, convert keys etc… Design Before starting the installation of the Certificate Authority components on a 2008 server, it is important to think about the design of your CA infrastructure. In any case, even if you are just a small company, I would highly recommend deploying at least a 2 tier model, which consists …

