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How to renew User/Computer certificate without require to do application side changes
21 April 12 07:58 PM | yuval14 | with no comments
The renewal process of user/computer certificate require (in the most of the cases) to implemented changes in the application side (e.g. IIS,Outlook etc.), As a workaround for this “limitation”, the renewal process of the User/computer certificate can be set to use exiting certificate key. However, using exiting certificate key may reduce the system security level, and this may lead to system/certificate compromise. Warring: To reduce the security risk of implementing changes in the Enterprise PKI...
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Monitoring Workgroup computers by using SCE 2010
07 October 11 01:35 AM | yuval14 | with no comments
Microsoft SCE 2010 is a light edition of Microsoft System Center products line. Monitoring Workgroup computers by using SCE 2010 is cover by the following Microsoft post: How to Prepare the Essentials Management Server to Manage Workgroup-Joined Computers However, you may found out that no information is available on the correct process to create a server certificate (that used for mutual authentication). The following Microsoft post cover the process how to create a server certificate. When you...
How to resolve Exchange 2010 error message: The Certificate Status could not be determined because the revocation check failed
20 September 11 05:31 PM | yuval14 | with no comments
The following error/s may appear in the Exchange 2010 Management Console: “ Exchange 2010 Certificate Revocation Checks and Proxy Settings ” or “ The Certificate Status could not be determined because the revocation check failed ” Cause: 1. You may use a Proxy server that block access to the CRL. 2. The CRL isn't available. How to Debug this issue: Obtain any (current) certificate from the Certificate Authority and run the following command: “ certutil –verify –urlfetch C:\CertificateName.cer...
How to Publish Root Certificate and Intermediate Root Certificate in Active Directory
14 September 11 12:10 AM | yuval14 | with no comments
To Publish Root Certificate and Intermediate Root Certificate in Active Directory, please use the following commands: Root certificate: certutil -dspublish -f RootCACertificate.crt RootCA Intermediate certificate: certutil -dspublish -f SubCACertificate.crt SubCA   To publish the certificate/s to NTAuth store, please review the following knowledgebase:  How to import third-party certification authority (CA) certificates into the Enterprise NTAuth store   Note: NTAuth store point to...
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How to add Root Certificate and Intermediate Certificate to a Windows Operating System
13 September 11 11:46 PM | yuval14 | 1 comment(s)
If you are using a PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), you may found out that Root Certificate and Intermediate Certificate may need be installed manually for Workgroup computers. Also, in case that you don’t use Active Directory (e.g. GPO etc.) to publish the Root Certificate and Intermediate Certificate details, you may need to add this certificates manually. To accomplish this task, please use the following commands:   Installing Root Certificate: “ Certutil -addstore -f Root MyRootCACertificate...
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Finding DSConfigDN and DSDomainDN values by using Certutil
01 September 11 01:55 AM | yuval14 | with no comments
DSConfigDN and DSDomainDN are two objects that should be taken care while designing PKI implementation (specially in case  of using a Stand Alone Root CA and a Enterprise Sub CA). The following output provides you instructions how to obtain the required values from your Certificate Authority: C:\Users\administrator>certutil -getreg  ca\DSConfigDN HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\CertSvc\Configuration\lyncd omain-SRV5-CA\DSConfigDN:   DSConfigDN REG_SZ = CN=Configuration...
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Windows 2008 R2 Certification Authority installation guide
11 August 11 11:18 PM | yuval14 | with no comments
Mr. Eyal Estrin wrote an excellent guide on “ Windows 2008 R2 Certification Authority installation guide ”. This guide provides a step by step guide how to install a Offline Root Certificate Authority and then setup a Enterprise Subordinate Certificate Authority. The guide can be obtain from the following link .
Error “Page Cannot be Displayed” may appear after replacing Exchange 2010 Certificate
03 July 11 08:19 PM | yuval14 | with no comments
Symptoms: After replacing Exchange 2010 Certificate , the following error may appear during accessing Exchange 2010 OWA (Outlook Web Access): “ Page Cannot be Displayed ”. Reason: The imported certificate may not contain a “Private key”. Solution: During certificate export process, verify that “Export Private Key” checkbox has been marked. After completing the new certificate, import it the Exchange 2010 server and assigned it to the relevant services.