Microsoft PKI Planning and Deploying Certificate Services Part 3
KB ID 0001312 Problem Following on from Part Two, now we have an offline Root CA, and a CRL server, our next step is defined by our PKI design, are we three tier, or two tier? (Look in Part One for a definition). Solution As previously mentioned, Microsoft just treats Intermediate CAs and Issuing CA’s as the same thing (SubCAs). So the next step is identical for either. But I would suggest one difference, If I was deploying an...
Windows Server – Locate CA / Certificate Services
KB ID 0001163 Problem A colleague was having some certificate problems onsite the other week. Someone suggested just using Certificate Services to simplify matters. I said I’d spin it up and configure it for him, (I’ve done a lot of Microsoft CA work, search the site!) My fist question was, “Do they already have certificate services?’, unsurprisingly the answer was “I don’t know”. So if...
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...