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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

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By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for Information Technology professionals looking to improve their knowledge about MS Windows Active Directory Domain Service. The book will help you to use identity elements effectively and manage your organization’s infrastructure in a secure and efficient way. This third edition has been fully updated to reflect the importance of cloud-based strong authentication and other tactics to protect identity infrastructure from emerging security threats. Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition provides extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and helps you explore their capabilities as you update to Windows Server 2022. This book will also teach you how to extend on-premises identity presence to cloud via Azure AD hybrid setup. By the end of this Microsoft Active Directory book, you’ll feel confident in your ability to design, plan, deploy, protect, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Requesting certificates

Based on the certificate templates published, users can request certificates from the issuing CA. I have logged in to an end user's PC and I am going to request a certificate based on the template we created in the previous step.

  1. To do that, go to Run, type MMC | Add/Remove Snap-in... | Certificates, and click on the Add button.
  2. From the list, select the computer account. Once selected, in the next window, select Local computer as the target.

    If the user is not an administrator and only has default permissions, the user will only be allowed to open the Current User snap-in. To open the computer account, MMC needs to be Run as administrator.

  3. Once MMC is loaded, go to the Personal container, right-click, and then follow All Tasks | Request New Certificate.
  4. This will open a new window. Click Next until you reach the Request Certificates window. In there, we can see the new template. Click on the checkbox...