Publishing a certificate template to allow enrollment

One of the most common certificate troubleshooting tasks I encounter is figuring out why a particular certificate template is not available when the user or computer tries to request a certificate. Having created a new certificate template does not necessarily mean that you are ready to start issuing certificates based on that template. We need to "publish" our new template, so that the CA server knows that it is ready to publish out to computers and users.

There is also a security section of the template properties where you need to define who or what has access to request certificates based on that template. In this recipe, we will find those settings and configure our new certificate template so that any domain joined workstation is allowed to request a certificate from our new template.

Getting ready

We are going to use the Windows Server 2012 R2 machine that is our Enterprise Root CA.

How to do it...

In order to issue certificates...