Active Directory Certificate Services
Even though self-signed certificates are very practical, when working within an organization, it is very common to take advantage of an internal CA. As a script author, you will have to go through a request approval process before you can obtain a signing certificate.
Prerequisites
In Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), certificates can be issued and managed through certificate templates. Templates define the purpose, extensions, private key access, security, and many other features for issued certificates. By default, the code signing certificate template is not available in the template list:
Manage available templates through the CA console (certsrv). You will have to add the code signing template as it is not listed by default.
The Certificate Templates
node in the certsrv
console is simply a list of available templates. You can add and remove templates, but their properties are managed in the Certificate Templates
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