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Design Considerations before Building a Two Tier PKI Infrastructure

First published on TECHNET on Jun 19, 2010 Environmental Dependencies: 1- Determine if the Active Directory Forest has Windows 2000 Domain Controllers. This is important because of modifications to the CertPublishers group scope, and permissions related to the AdminSDHolder role. These permissions can be added by using the Dsacls command. 2- Determine if the Active …

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Disaster Recovery Procedures for Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS)

First published on TECHNET on Apr 20, 2010 Introduction: When designing a public key infrastructure (PKI) for your organization, you must develop an effective disaster recovery plan to ensure that, in the event of failure of the computer hosting Certificate Services, you can recover in a timely manner with little effect on your organization. Common …

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Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Certificate Services System State Backup and Restore

First published on TECHNET on Mar 21, 2013 Windows Server 2012 System State Backup allows an administrator to back-up several Operating System components including those required for a successful restore of a Certification Authority. Any certification authority backup should include the private key, certificate database, logs and the certification authority’s registry configuration. Windows Server Backup …

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Connecting iPads to an Enterprise Wireless 802.1x Network Using Certificates and Network Device Enrollment Services (NDES)

First published on TECHNET on Feb 27, 2012 Important notice : Microsoft does not support any apple products, if you need to troubleshoot any problem related to Apple products, please refer to http://www.apple.com/support Warning SCEP was designed to be used in a closed network where all end-points are trusted. The warnings from CERT in the …

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Decommissioning an Old Certification Authority without affecting Previously Issued Certificates and then Switching Operations to a New One

First published on TECHNET on Jan 27, 2012 Jonathan Stephens posted an excellent Blog about this topic ; however, it didn’t include the steps. As a result, I decided to type this Blog detailing the steps required. The following assumptions have to be met before proceeding with these steps: 1- There is a new valid Certification …

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