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Is a CA mandatory in AD MNews 05-29-2008
Posted by MNews on May 29, 2008, 10:50 pm
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 Hi all
I am setting up a test domain and of about 30 users all one site. During
our research I was reading about Certificate Authority servers. Is this
something that is added by default when you install AD? If not, under
what circumstances should a domain have a there own CA? Should the CA be
on a DC?

Thanks for your advice

Carl




Posted by Steve Riley [MSFT] on May 30, 2008, 12:49 am
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 The answer to this is will you be setting up any services that require
certificates for authentication? For example, wireless networking, IPsec,
S/MIME (email signing and encryption)? If so, then you'll need a CA.

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Steve Riley
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> Hi all
> I am setting up a test domain and of about 30 users all one site. During
> our research I was reading about Certificate Authority servers. Is this
> something that is added by default when you install AD? If not, under
> what circumstances should a domain have a there own CA? Should the CA be
> on a DC?
>
> Thanks for your advice
>
> Carl
>
>
>

Posted by S. Pidgorny on June 1, 2008, 5:39 am
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1. No.
2. If you have requirements for a CA and an external CA cannot meet all the
requirements i.e. cost
3. No.

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Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

* http://sl.mvps.org * http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp *

> Hi all
> I am setting up a test domain and of about 30 users all one site. During
> our research I was reading about Certificate Authority servers. Is this
> something that is added by default when you install AD? If not, under
> what circumstances should a domain have a there own CA? Should the CA be
> on a DC?
>
> Thanks for your advice
>
> Carl
>
>
>



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