Overview
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Learn how to use Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to verify identity, encrypt communication, and establish trust across a Windows network.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Extablishing trust with certificates
- Things you should know
- The purpose of a certificate
- Trusted certificate authorities
- Anatomy of a certificate
- Security properties of certificates
- The hierarchy of AD CS
- Installing certificate services
- Configuring a root authority
- Configuring subordinate authorities
- Backup and recovery of AD CS
- Trusting your root CA
- Built-in vs. custom templates
- Creating templates for AD
- Security of a certificate template
- Publishing certificate templates
- GPO for issuing certificates
- Manual certificate enrollment
- Using enrollment agents
- Installing a Web enrollment server
- Using a web enrollment server
- Managing CRL distribution points
- Using online responders
- Configuring online responders
- Next steps
