Chapter 12. Designing Certificate Templates

Certificate templates are used by Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to define the contents of certificates issued by enterprise certification authorities (CAs). The Certificate Templates console is an easy-to-use interface for creating and customizing certificate templates.

Note

Note

For more detailed information on modifying and creating certificate templates, see “Implementing and Administering Certificate Templates” at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3c670732-c971-4c65-be9c-c0ebc3749e24&displaylang=en.

Certificate Template Versions

Windows Server 2008 supports three versions ...

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