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Rakan Alromaih
Blog Task 6
Mar 11th, 2015
Certificate Services
1. WHAT:
What is Certificate Services?
Certificate Services, a service running on a Windows server operating
system, receives requests for new digital certificates over transports such
as RPC or HTTP. It checks each request against custom or site-specific
policies, sets optional properties for a certificate to be issued, and issues
the certificate. Certificate Services allows administrators to add elements
to a certificate revocation list (CRL), and to publish signed CRLs on a
regular basis.
Certificate services include programmable interfaces for creating support
for additional transports, policies, and certificate properties and formats.
In Windows Server 2003, Certificate Services 2.0 can be installed from
Control Panel by clicking Add or Remove Programs and then clicking Add
or Remove Windows Components to install or uninstall Certificate
Services.
2. WHY:
Why is Certificate Services important?
Because applications supported by Certificate Services include
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME), secure
wireless networks, virtual private networks (VPN), Internet
Protocol security (IPSec), Encrypting File System (EFS), smart
card logon, Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security
(SSL/TLS) and digital signatures. Moreover, Certificate Services
can be managed through Microsoft Management Console snap-
ins or Server Manager and has six components: First, Certificate
Services Web enrollment is connects users to a Certificate
Services with a Web browser. Second, Certification authorities
(CAs) manage certificate validation and issues certificates. Third,
Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service allows computers and
users to retrieve information about their certificate enrollment
policy. Fourth, Certificate Enrollment Web Service allows
computers and users to enroll certificates using HTTPS. Fifth,
Network Device Enrollment Service lets network devices without
domain accounts retrieve certificates. Sixth and lastly, Online
Responder, which responds to, requests about a certificate's
status.
3. HOW:
How to Setup a Certificate Services?
Stephen and I have done the following steps to install Certificate
Services as follow:
Selecting Server Role.
Creating the cryptographic service provider or hash algorithm.
Certificate Authority Name.
Installation successful.
Installation successful 2
Setting up server permissions to Sign Certificate
4. CONCLUSION:
The task was enjoyable however, there were some challenges that I faced
which I had to search about how to setup Certificate Services, and also I had
find out how to add the correct feature that support Certificate Services.
The overall of this task was really enjoyable because I did learn an important
feature in technology. I hope that this report is very helpful for everyone.