Using MMC to request a new certificate
The most common way that I see administrators interface with the certificates on their systems is through the MMC snap-in tool. MMC is short for Microsoft Management Console, and by using MMC, you can administer just about anything in the operating system. Though this is perhaps a greatly underutilized tool, I only generally see it being opened for a few select tasks. Requesting certificates is one of those tasks.
We are going to use the MMC console on a new server that we have in our network. There is a new certificate template that has been created, and we would like to issue one of these certificates to our new web server.
Getting ready
A Server 2016 Enterprise Root CA server is online and running in our ...
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