Setting up a certificate authority

The certificate authority is responsible for verifying the identity of organization components such as users and computers. The certificate authority verifies entity and vouches for the identity by generating the digitally signed certificate.

In this section, we will install the certificate authority role active directory certificate services on Windows server 2012 R2, and post installation, it will act as a certificate authority of the domain.

Let's go through the step-by-step installation of role active directory certificate services:

  1. To start, click on Add roles and Features in the server manager:
    Setting up a certificate authority
  2. On the installation ...

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