Mastering Windows Server 2016

Chapter 10Active Directory Certificate Services

AD CS is a public key infrastructure (PKI) solution for managing certificates in a network. Microsoft has enhanced and expanded AD CS through many of the major versions of Windows Server. The last major updates occurred in Windows Server 2012 R2, while only minor enhancements were made in Windows Server 2016. In this chapter, we are going to discuss Active Directory Certificate Services as it exists today in Windows Server 2016. Like Active Directory Domain Services, Active Directory Certificate Services is a huge topic. It can easily fill an entire book (and has). We'll focus on the most relevant material that most admins must deal with when planning and implementing AD CS. This means that ...