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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook Recipe-based guide for security, networking and PKI in Windows Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789137675
Length 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Table of Contents (4) Chapters Close

1. Security and Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Certificates 3. Remote Access 4. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using MMC to request a new certificate

The most common way that I see administrators interface with the certificates on their systems is through the MMC snap-in tool. MMC is short for Microsoft Management Console, and by using MMC, you can administer just about anything in the operating system. Though this is perhaps a greatly underutilized tool, I only generally see it being opened for a few select tasks. Requesting certificates is one of those tasks.

We are going to use the MMC console on a new server that we have in our network. There is a new certificate template that has been created, and we would like to issue one of these certificates to our new web server.

Getting ready

A Server 2016 Enterprise Root CA server is online...

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