7.7. Using Certificate-Monitoring Tools

For the certification exam, you need to be familiar with two important and useful certificate-monitoring tools that come with Windows Server 2008:

pkiview.msc

The pkiview.msc command launches the PKI Health tool, which allows you to monitor the activity and health of your currently existing public key infrastructure. Additionally, it monitors Authority Information Access (AIA) and CRL distribution (CDP) extensions to ensure that the line of communication for the distribution of authority for certificates is properly monitored.

certutil.exe

The certification utility (certutil.exe) command allows you to determine the validity of issued certificates through the use of two switches:

  • -verify -urlfetch

  • -viewstore ...

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