Windows ca 2008

If the outstanding certificates are processed by the various Public Key Infrastructure client computers, validation will fail, and those certificates will not be used. This article describes how to revoke outstanding certificates and how to complete various other tasks that are required to successfully uninstall a CA.

Additionally, this article describes several utilities that you can use to help you remove CA objects from your domain. The lifetime of the Certificate Revocation List CRL should be longer than the lifetime that remains for certificates that have been revoked. By default, an enterprise CA does not store certificate requests. However, an administrator can change this default behavior.

To deny any pending certificate requests, follow these steps:. This command will display the names of all the installed cryptographic service providers CSP and the key stores that are associated with each provider. Listed among the listed key stores will be the name of your CA. The name will be listed several times, as shown in the following example:.

Delete the private key that is associated with the CA. To do this, at a command prompt, type the following command, and then press Enter:. Therefore, the command line in this example is as follows:.

After you delete the private key for your CA, uninstall Certificate Services. To do this, follow these steps, depending on the version of Windows Server that you are running. If you are uninstalling an enterprise CA, membership in Enterprise Admins, or the equivalent, is the minimum that is required to complete this procedure.

For more information, see Implement Role-Based Administration. You must log on with the same permissions as the user who installed the CA to complete this procedure. If the remaining role services, such as the Online Responder service, were configured to use data from the uninstalled CA, you must reconfigure these services to support a different CA.

And I feel comfortable if it imports ok on the clones. As there is kind of no go back. Click Browse to the Back up to this location, select an empty folder to store the backup files, and click Next to continue. Click Next to continue. Certificate Templates: Open the PowerShell command prompt with run as administrator, run the below mentioned command certutil.

In my case , As below. Type the password for the file when prompted, then confirm it. Give the same name as old Root CA. But when you import the registry the Old CA Name will be retained. On the Items to Restore screen, check Private key and CA certificate and Certificate database and certificate database log. Click Browse to the backup copied location to restore from this location.

The screenshots below show the server name as WS to highlight which server we are working on. This step-by-step highlights screenshots from Windows Server Windows Server process is the same with similar screenshots. It is now time to reissue the certificate with the migration process now complete. You must be a registered user to add a comment. If you've already registered, sign in. Otherwise, register and sign in. Products 72 Special Topics 41 Video Hub Most Active Hubs Microsoft Teams.

Security, Compliance and Identity. Microsoft Edge Insider. Usually in the Name box you would type the common name of the certificate, but this time we are not going to. Complete the rest of the boxes until you reach the Attributes box. Here we provide the domain names that this certificate should protect. The syntax is like this:. If you want to, give the certificate a friendly name than click the Submit button. When the warning pops-up click Yes.

To install the certificate click the link Install this certificate. Now if we open the user certificates store we can see our certificate installed, and with a SAN extension that contains the protected domain names. Just look at the Issued to section. I told you it will be fancy. OK, we created a certificate by completing the information in the CA web page, but what about those of you that have the request in a file! You can download OpenSSL from this address. To configure it for SAN extension we need to edit the openssl.

Off course replace the domain names with your own. Now open a terminal and go to the OpenSSL bin directory path. Here type the following:. Now in the bin folder there is a new file called rui.

Open the file using notepad or any other text editor, copy the content and go the CA web page.