For most ICT professionals, computers and related media are just means of production, not the meaning themselves. In the middle of a complicated midnight operation, imagine that your external storage starts ticking off as it tries to tell you that something is going wrong. This would embitter you as it raises doubts that your whole valuable data might be vanishing in front of your eyes, or they’ve already left the place. I know how it is depressing to leave the current work and face a hard disk issue out of the blue. But when this takes place, it means that you’ll run after your storage media in a panic to rescue your data especially if you’re not synchronizing them into another location periodically.
In the first part of the article, we explained the usage purposes of certificate services and the new improvement that comes with Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. In addition to these, we installed certificate authority server and online provider services. In this part , we will associate the two services with each other and create certificate templates. We will also generate certificates for computers/users and revoke them as well.
In this article I will explain the installation and configuration of Certificate Services (AD CS) on Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Of course, a perfectly running Active Directory infrastructure is a must for a perfectly running AD CS. You can find the details about creating an Active Directory Infrastructure in one of my previous articles; Mail Infrastructure with Exchange Server 2010 (from scratch) (http://www.ipsure.com/blog/2010/exchange-2010-organization-from-scratch/ ).
