Certificate Services – Create a ‘Wildcard Certificate’
Jan11

Certificate Services – Create a ‘Wildcard Certificate’

KB ID 0001128 Problem Now you may be thinking, “If you have your own CA/PKI solution why would you need to create a Wildcard Certificate”? If you can generate as many certificates as you want whats the point? Well today I need to setup ADFS, WAG (Web Application Gateway), and Remote Desktop Services Gateway Server. To make the whole thing wok on my test bench would be a lot less hassle if I could just use one certificate...

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Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES
Nov17

Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES

KB ID 0000970 Problem I’ve covered setting up NDES at length in the past, but what happens when your issued certificates expire? If you are using them for all your VPNs what then? Well thankfully you can get your devices to automatically re-enroll and before they expire, for example to renew the cert at 80% of its lifetime you would use the following; crypto pki trustpoint PNL-TRUSTPOINT enrollment url...

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Certificate Services Error – ‘The Email name is unavailable and cannot be added to the Subject or Subject Alternate name’
Nov17

Certificate Services Error – ‘The Email name is unavailable and cannot be added to the Subject or Subject Alternate name’

KB ID 0001029 Problem Server: Windows Server 2012 R2 Client: Windows 8 Enterprise I was setting auto-enrollment this morning, and the computer certificates were getting issued but not the user ones. The policies were correct, the registry keys on the clients were correct, even RSOP told me the users ‘should’ be getting certificates. However nothing was working so I decided to ‘manually enroll’ and this...

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Event ID 29
Nov17

Event ID 29

KB ID 0001032  Problem Seen on a Microsoft Certificate Services server running NDES. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkDeviceEnrollmentService Date: 04/02/2015 11:22:26 Event ID: 29 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: User: PETENETLIVESVC_NDES Computer: PNLPKI00v.petenetlive.com Description: The password in the certificate request cannot be verified. It may have been used already. Obtain a new password to...

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Event ID 128 – Certification Authority
Nov17

Event ID 128 – Certification Authority

KB ID 0001033  Problem Seen in the application log of a Windows Certificate Services server (Server 2012 R2) Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-Windows-CertificationAuthority Date: 07/02/2015 15:55:26 Event ID: 128 Task Category: None Level: Warning Keywords: User: SYSTEM Computer: PNLPKI00v.petenetlive.com Description: An Authority Key Identifier was passed as part of the certificate request 29. This feature has not been...

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