Active Directory Certificate Services

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is used to create certification authorities and related role services that allow you to issue and manage certificates used in a variety of applications.

— Official Description

Installation and Configuration

• Role services of AD CS
  • Understanding AD CS role services.

• Install AD CS
  • Understand installation requirements and perform installation.

• Configure AD CS
  • Configure AD CS step by step.

Configure services individually

• Configure Certificate Enrollment Web Service
  • Configure Certificate Enrollment Web Service step by step.

• Configure Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service
  • Configure Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service step by step.

• Configure Network Device Enrollment Service
  • Configure Network Device Enrollment Service step by step.

Usage

• Create and issue certificate templates
  • Use certificate templates to meet different requirements.

• Manually requesting a certificate
  • Manually requesting a certificate for computers or users.

Tutorials

• Configure certificate auto-enrollment
  • Configure certificate auto-enrollment.

• Use Group Policy to distribute certificates to clients
  • Use Group Policy to distribute certificates to clients.