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Windows Server 2022 & Powershell All-in-One For Dummies
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Windows Server 2022 & Powershell All-in-One For Dummies

by Sara Perrott
March 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
784 pages
18h 19m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Installing and Configuring AD CS

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Understanding the Certificate Authority (CA) Architecture and Hierarchy

check Installing a Windows Server 2022 certificate authority

check Configuring certificate auto-enrollment with Active Directory Certificate Services

At some point in your career, you will most likely need to work with certificates. If you’re managing your own Windows Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), you’ll most likely be using Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS).

If you’re not sure what a certificate is or why you might want one, check out Chapter 5 of this minibook. There, I cover what certificates are and some of the more common templates that are used to issue certificates. As a brief recap, certificates are used to prove identity and/or encrypt data. Certificates are issued by servers in a public key infrastructure (PKI). Because certificates purchased from third-party certificate authorities can become cost-prohibitive for organizations, many organizations install their own internal PKIs to support internal systems or applications.

In this chapter, I fill you in on AD CS specifically. I explain certificate authority (CA) architecture and how to ...

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