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Mastering Windows Server 2019, Third Edition - Third Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078313
Pages 690 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Author (1):
Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
Profile icon Jordan Krause

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2019 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2019 3. Active Directory 4. DNS and DHCP 5. Group Policy 6. Certificates in Windows Server 2019 7. Networking with Windows Server 2019 8. Remote Access 9. Hardening and Security 10. Server Core 11. PowerShell 12. Redundancy in Windows Server 2019 13. Containers and Nano Server 14. Hyper-V 15. Troubleshooting Windows Server 2019 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index
Appendix: Answers to the end-of-chapter Questions

Creating a new certificate template

Enough talk. It's time to get some work done. Now that our CA role has been installed, let's make it do something! The purpose of a certificate server is to issue certificates, right? So, shall we do that? Not so fast. When you issue a certificate from a CA server to a device or user, you are not choosing which certificate you want to deploy; rather you are choosing which certificate template you want to utilize to deploy a certificate based upon the settings configured inside that template. Certificate templates are sort of like recipes for cooking. On the CA server, you build out your templates and include all of the particular ingredients, or settings, that you want to incorporate into your final certificate.

Then, when the users or computers come to request a certificate from the CA server, they are sort of baking a certificate into their system by telling the CA which template recipe to follow when building that certificate....

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