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.