You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Certificate templates

Now we have a working PKI, and we can turn off the standalone root CA. It should only be brought online if the issuing CA certificates are expired or the PKI is compromised.

The CA comes with predefined certificate templates. These can be used to build custom certificate templates according to the organization's requirements and can be published to AD.

CA certificate templates are available under the Certificate Templates MMC. They can be accessed using Run | MMC | File | Add/Remove Snap-in... | Certificate Templates.

To create a custom template, right-click on a template and click on Duplicate Template:

Figure 13.22: Duplicate certificate template
This will open up the Properties window, where you can change the settings of the certificate template to match the requirements. Some common settings to change in templates are listed here:
- Template display name (the General tab): The display name of the template...