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Enterprise PKI for Lab/Test

I'm looking for some advise on building a MS PKI. The query I have is - do org build a enterprise PKI for Testing, and how is it integrated with Domain controller. What are the best practices for Test PKI

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-15T10:13:11.85+00:00
Simranjit Singh 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-10-23T01:42:22.113+00:00
Fan Fan 15,321 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
2 answers

How to capture audit log for the following packet filters DR-F0401-032, DR-F0401-036, DR-F0401-037 and DR-F0401-117?

How to capture audit log for the following packet filters DR-F0401-032, DR-F0401-036, DR-F0401-037 and DR-F0401-117?

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,425 questions
Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,524 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-08T05:45:14.36+00:00
Fahrid F 196 Reputation points
answered 2020-10-22T09:20:02.327+00:00
Vicky Wang 2,646 Reputation points
2 answers

Add timestamp (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.8) to an existing EKU of cross signing certificate template

Hi, I am new to this topic. Requesting some help here - Recently my company known as A acquired another company called B. The B company have built their own internal PKI and company A has provided a cross signing certificate from their internal PKI…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-19T17:25:48.403+00:00
Abdul Khadar 21 Reputation points
answered 2020-10-21T14:03:31.697+00:00
Abdul Khadar 21 Reputation points
4 answers

Delete an microsoft account

Hi, I was trying to enter with my university account to get a Microsoft license for teachers but was not get what I expected, so I do not like to have my phone number and email in another account. So I just want to delete forever my Microsoft account.…

Microsoft Partner Center
Microsoft Partner Center
A Microsoft website for partners that provides access to product support, a partner community, and other partner services.
917 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-15T13:01:04.447+00:00
Ougoust Brais 6 Reputation points
answered 2020-10-21T09:02:45.473+00:00
Vicky Wang 2,646 Reputation points
3 answers

how to convert ppf to pfx file

hello all, I have ppf file for my certificate with I need to convert it to pfx file and import it in windows certificate manager. this ppf file is my private certificate. I need to import it on my local computer that it can be connected to my devops…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
Azure App Service
Azure App Service
Azure App Service is a service used to create and deploy scalable, mission-critical web apps.
7,279 questions
asked 2020-10-20T02:01:44.103+00:00
Alex 21 Reputation points
answered 2020-10-21T01:49:56.51+00:00
Hannah Xiong 6,256 Reputation points
4 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Built-in DOMAIN\Administrator account permanent strange blocking

The infrastructure is not mine. Domain/Forest Windows 2012, 5 virtualized DCs in 4 Sites. Built-in DOMAIN\Administrator account is permanently blocked in HQ Site on one of the DC (PDC Emul.). Company personnel does not want to disable or rename…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,154 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-14T19:28:45.183+00:00
Allan Stark 501 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-20T12:54:39.31+00:00
Allan Stark 501 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Client Certificates and new last name

We require user certificate for pre-auth for our VPN solution. Our User certificate have UPN as SAN. When last name changes and UPN change, it seem users cannot connect back to VPN. Anyone have insight into this? How can we reissue new cert (when still…

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,425 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-14T14:03:03.27+00:00
Akin 61 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-19T23:37:09.527+00:00
Akin 61 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

"Certificate Policies" attribute is missing and "Issuer Statement" option is grayed out on the renewed CA cert

Hello Everyone, Recently I have renewed my Issuing CA certificate. To be specific, I have just signed the cert and yet to install on CA. While comparing the attributes of current CA cert & renewed CA cert, i found "Certificate Policies"…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-08-20T17:55:42.023+00:00
Abdul Khadar 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-19T17:03:52.957+00:00
Abdul Khadar 21 Reputation points
1 answer

Kerberos Realm Trust: Extra settings

Hi, Kerberos Realm Trust is one of the available trusts in AD Domains and Trusts. So I proceed "as usual" by adding this trust with Wizard: This can also be done from command line: netdom trust /add /realm .... . Netdom has also…

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,154 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-10T13:53:31.15+00:00
InfoTechdude 156 Reputation points
commented 2020-10-19T10:23:13.347+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,791 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
1 answer

We lost our certificate autority server

Hi, our ceritificate autority server damaged and we were unable to recover. What should I do to install a new certificate autority? Thank you.

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-07T03:48:06.84+00:00
Salves 501 Reputation points
commented 2020-10-19T02:42:29.597+00:00
Fan Fan 15,321 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

certification voucher after completion of cloud challenge

Hi Team, i have completed cloud challenge as mentioned below in ignite session ,but did not received any notification for certification, when can i except this or anything has to be additionally performed from my end. Free Microsoft Certification…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-09-22T21:40:44.78+00:00
Rahul KJ 21 Reputation points
answered 2020-10-16T07:52:13.917+00:00
VM-9846 1 Reputation point
3 answers

Expired certificate keeps re-appearing a few minutes after it is deleted

We have a Windows 2016 SCCM server with a local instance of SQL server 2016. The SQL server cert was expiring and a new SQL Server cert was created and applied. When we delete the old SQL Server certificate in the Certificates MMC, it re-appears a few…

SQL Server
SQL Server
A family of Microsoft relational database management and analysis systems for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
13,214 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
Microsoft Configuration Manager
asked 2020-10-08T20:49:18.963+00:00
Paul Salotti 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-10-16T01:34:52.547+00:00
Hannah Xiong 6,256 Reputation points
1 answer

Enroll on behalf of problem

Like many, we have staff working from home now using a VPN to connect back to site. This VPN is secured using credentials and user certificates. The issue is that when these user certificates expire, there's no way for the staff member to request a new…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-02T10:00:52.013+00:00
TonyB 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-10-16T01:11:57.07+00:00
Daisy Zhou 20,791 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Domain Conroller certificate key size

Hi, On my domain controllers, I have "domain controller" certificate issued by sub-ordinate CA. Domain controller certificate is having/issued with 1024 bit key size (RSA public key) whereas issuing authority certificate is with 2048 bit…

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,154 questions
Windows Server Management
Windows Server Management
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Management: The act or process of organizing, handling, directing or controlling something.
424 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-09-23T15:16:22.657+00:00
WinTechie 286 Reputation points
commented 2020-10-15T10:30:40.687+00:00
WinTechie 286 Reputation points
2 answers

How to identify strong and weak ciphers?

Hi All, We have a doubt on how to identify the strong and weak ciphers from below: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0xc030) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 (0xc028) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (0xc013) Can anyone help me…

Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management updated to data storage.
2,425 questions
Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,524 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-06T01:53:51.32+00:00
Fahrid F 196 Reputation points
commented 2020-10-14T02:06:19.473+00:00
Hannah Xiong 6,256 Reputation points
5 answers

Active Directory Certificate Services - Certificate enrollment process is stuck in MMC

Good morning all, When I request a certificate at my enterprise CA using MMC, the enrollment process keeps getting stuck at the progress bar shown in the picture below. I checked that the service is running and event logs show no warnigs/errors…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-09-30T16:49:20.523+00:00
Christopher Ehrit 1 Reputation point
answered 2020-10-13T02:19:18.597+00:00
Hannah Xiong 6,256 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Certificate Enrollment Web service

I need to test the installation and configuration of a web service to enroll for certificates. Where can i locate step-by-step documentation to install and configure "Certificate Enrollment Web service", "Certification Authority Web…

Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-09T15:05:22.113+00:00
Marius - Roma 371 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-12T07:49:17.627+00:00
Marius - Roma 371 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Windows Server 2012

Is there a possibility to deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (former: Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection) to an Windows Server 2012? As far as i know, it's supported for the following operating systems: Windows Clients: Windows 7 …

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
1,564 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-10T13:46:59.093+00:00
Still 42 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-11T05:49:58.043+00:00
Still 42 21 Reputation points
7 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Event ID's 5829-31 Not Visible in Domain Controller logs after August 2020 Patches

Hello, we have applied the August 2020 patches on our Domain Controllers but do not see any logs with Event ID 5829-5831 since the updates. There is at least one Server 2003 machine (i.e. out of support OS) on our domain which I assume is still using…

Windows
Windows
A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.
5,002 questions
Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
12,524 questions
Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,154 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server PowerShell
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.PowerShell: A family of Microsoft task automation and configuration management frameworks consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.
5,446 questions
asked 2020-09-30T18:52:11.86+00:00
atekkof 21 Reputation points
accepted 2020-10-08T13:01:48.003+00:00
atekkof 21 Reputation points
3 answers

Orphaned Enterprise CAs....

I inherited a network with two orphaned Enterprise CAs in Active Directory. Both DCs that were running these CAs, are long gone.... I found the following article and would like to confirm that it still applies to get rid of these orphaned CAs. The…

Active Directory
Active Directory
A set of directory-based technologies included in Windows Server.
6,154 questions
Windows Server Security
Windows Server Security
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
1,775 questions
asked 2020-10-01T15:32:45.6+00:00
Lynx1997 1 Reputation point
commented 2020-10-08T06:52:36.073+00:00
Fan Fan 15,321 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor