April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
138 pages
3h 55m
English
Running the web service on your CA server can be beneficial because it allows another method of requesting certificates. In this recipe, we were able to very quickly pull open our CA certificate requesting webpage and walk through some simple steps. This enabled us to download a new certificate that we are planning to use with our new web server's SharePoint site.
Because our web server is inside the corporate network, we could have also accomplished this request right from the Certificates MMC console. However, if our web server had been in a different building separated by networking equipment and firewalls, this may not have been an option for us. Or if we were trying to acquire a certificate from another machine that didn't ...