Issuing your new certificates

Next comes the part that trips up a lot of people on their first attempt. You now have a brand new template to issue, and we have verified that the permissions within that certificate template are appropriately configured so that any computer that is a member of our domain should be able to request one of these certificates, right? So our logical next step would be to jump onto a client computer and request a certificate, but there is first one additional task that needs to be accomplished in order to make that possible.

Even though the new template has been created, it has not yet been published. So at the moment, the CA server will not offer our new template as an option to the clients, even though security permissions are configured for it to do so. The process to publish a certificate template is very quick—only a couple of mouse clicks—but unless you know about the need to do this, it can be a very frustrating experience because...