Month: January 2020

First published on TECHNET on Mar 19, 2010

The official version of the new 2008 R2 ADCS Migration Guide is now available at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126170(WS.10).aspx

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The guide desc… Continue reading Windows Server 2008 R2 AD CS Migration Guide→

First published on TECHNET on Mar 08, 2010

There are two types of certification authorities: Standalone and Enterprise. Only Enterprise certification authorities have been tested for clustered installations.

A very short b… Continue reading What CA types are supported for clustering?→

First published on TECHNET on Feb 10, 2010

This

document

explains the interdependencies between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) related to Homeland Security Presid… Continue reading Whitepaper “HSPD-12 Logical Access Authentication and Active Directory Domains”→

First published on TECHNET on Jan 11, 2010

Below are some numbers we have measured when testing the Windows CA in our lab environment.

Note that the numbers will change a… Continue reading Windows CA Performance Numbers→

First published on TECHNET on Jan 10, 2010

The colleagues from the AskDS blog posted a quite valuable article about

Clustered CA maintenance tasks

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Continue reading Clustered Certification Authority maintenance tasks→

First published on TECHNET on Dec 21, 2009

The beta version of the new 2008 R2 ADCS Migration Guide is now available at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee126140(WS.10).aspx

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The guide describe… Continue reading Server 2008 R2 ADCS Migration Guide Beta→

First published on TECHNET on Dec 04, 2009

There have been a number of questions about Active Directory (AD) schema requirements for the Windows PKI features so I decided this deserves a blog post.

Cheat sheet

1. … Continue reading AD Schema Requirements for Windows PKI features→

First published on TECHNET on Nov 09, 2009

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 inform… Continue reading How Certificates Are Created→