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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook

by Jordan Krause
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
138 pages
3h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building a Subordinate certification authority server

We build Subordinate CAs not really for the purposes of redundancy, like with many other kinds of servers, but because there are specific tasks that you may want to perform on a subordinate CA rather than a Root CA. If you issue a lot of certificates or different kinds of certificates, you may want to differentiate between CA servers when issuing. Perhaps you want machine certificates that are used for IPsec to be issued from IPSEC-CA, but the SSL website certificates that you issue should show as being issued from WEB-CA. Rather than building out two independent Root CAs that both have top-level rights, you should consider creating a single Root CA, maybe called ROOT-CA, and placing these ...

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