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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Certificate templates

Now we have a working PKI, and we can turn off the standalone root CA. It should only be brought online if the issuing CA certificates are expired or the PKI is compromised.

The CA comes with predefined certificate templates. These can be used to build custom certificate templates according to the organization's requirements and can be published to AD.

CA certificate templates are available under the Certificate Templates MMC. They can be accessed using Run | MMC | File | Add/Remove Snap-in... | Certificate Templates.

  1. To create a custom template, right-click on a template and click on Duplicate Template:

    Figure 13.22: Duplicate certificate template

  2. This will open up the Properties window, where you can change the settings of the certificate template to match the requirements. Some common settings to change in templates are listed here:
    • Template display name (the General tab): The display name of the template...
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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