AD CS
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Overview¶
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is a Windows Server role (similar to IIS, DHCP, DNS, etc.) that is used for issuing and managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates within a domain. This is utilized for secure communication and authentication protocols.
Features that AD CS provides includes:
- Root and subordinate Certificate Authorities (CA's).
- Certificate enrollment policy management and enrollment.
- TPM (Trusted Platform Module) key attestation.
- etc., etc., etc.
Because of AD CS' scale and utilization in authentication, we can...