Issuing your new certificates

Next comes the part that trips up a lot of people on their first attempt. You now have a brand new template to issue, and we have verified that the permissions within that certificate template are appropriately configured so that any computer on your network should be able to request one of these certificates, right? So our logical next step would be to jump onto a client computer and request a certificate, but there is first one additional item that needs to be accomplished in order to make that possible.

Even though the new template has been created, it has not yet been published. So at the moment, the CA server will not offer our new template as an option to the clients, even though security permissions are configured ...

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