Once installed, AD CS is ready to issue certificates to computers and users. In this section, you will learn how to manage certificates and templates.
Managing certificates and templates
Managing certificates
As mentioned earlier, a certificate is a file that contains information about its owner, such as their email address, their name, the certificate usage type, and AIA and CDP URLs. All of this information will be issued from the certificate template. Each certificate also has a pair of keys, private, and public keys, which will be used in the processes of digital signing, identity validation, and encryption. The pair of keys works in the following ways:
- Content that is encrypted with the public key can be decrypted only...