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Sander Berkouwer
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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
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Requesting a web server certificate

One of the most common certificate uses is to encrypt web traffic. A web server certificate can be used for this purpose. This recipe shows how to request a web server certificate from an enterprise CA from a domain-joined Windows server.

Getting ready

Sign in to the web server with a domain account.

How to do it…

Perform these steps to request a web server certificate from an enterprise CA:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Type mmc.exe and press the Enter key.
  3. This starts an empty Microsoft Management Console window titled Console1.
  4. From the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in…. The Add or Remove Snap-ins pop-up window appears.
  5. Select Certificates from the Available snap-ins list and click Add >.
  6. Select Computer account and click Next >.
  7. Select Local Computer and click Finish. The Certificates (Local Computer) snap-in is now visible in the Selected snap-ins column:

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Published in: Jul 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803242507

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Sander Berkouwer

Sander Berkouwer calls himself an Active Directory aficionado; he's done everything with Active Directory and Azure AD, including decommissioning. He has been MCSA, MCSE, and MCITP-certified for ages, an MCT for the past 5 years and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) on Directory Services and Enterprise Mobility for over a decade. Sander is also decorated with Veeam Vanguard and VMware vExpert awards for his international cross-platform knowledge, experience and passion. As the CTO at SCCT, Sander leads a team of architects performing many projects, most of them identity-related, throughout Europe.
Read more about Sander Berkouwer