Revoking a certificate
Every certificate issued by a CA is stored in its database. From there, it can be reissued and revoked. This recipe shows how to revoke a previously issued certificate.
Getting ready
Sign in with local administrator privileges when the CA on which you want to revoke one or more certificates is a standalone CA. Sign in with a domain account that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group when the CA on which you want to revoke one or more certificates is an enterprise CA.
How to do it…
Perform these steps to revoke a previously issued certificate:
- Press Start.
- Search for the Certification Authority management console or run
certsrv.msc
. - In the left navigation pane, expand the node representing the CA.
- Click the Issued Certificates node.
- In the main pane, select the certificate you want to revoke.
- Right-click the certificate. From the context menu, select All Tasks and then Revoke Certificate. The Certificate Revocation...