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Certificate Enrollment Web Service accepts enrollment over HTTPS for users and computers. Together with the policy service, it supports policy-based enrollment for non-domain or temporarily disconnected domain clients.
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The policy web service supplies enrollment-policy information to non-domain or temporarily disconnected domain clients. It queries AD DS over LDAP or LDAPS and supports policy retrieval, enrollment, and renewal over HTTPS.
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NDES acts as an AD CS registration authority for devices that lack domain credentials. It uses SCEP to support scalable certificate issuance to network devices in trusted closed networks.
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The Microsoft Root Certificate Program distributes trusted and untrusted root information used by Windows trust decisions. Trusted and untrusted certificate-list functionality is designed for connected and disconnected environments.
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CA Web Enrollment can retrieve the current base and delta certificate revocation lists. Microsoft documents prerequisites and a browser-based retrieval procedure.
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Windows can redirect automatic certificate-list retrieval to an internal file or web server. The documented mirror can host trusted CTLs, untrusted CTLs, or a selected subset for disconnected environments.
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Group Policy can distribute certificates that chain to a trusted root to Windows devices in an AD domain. The documented workflow imports the certificates into a Group Policy object after prerequisites are met.
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A root CA self-signs at the top of the PKI hierarchy, so its renewal preserves continued trust. Microsoft documents renewal with an existing or new key pair and makes root-CA backup the first procedure step.
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Windows policy can reject X.509 certificates that use MD5, SHA-1, or undersized RSA keys. The policy affects certificate validation for TLS, code signing, and other Windows certificate scenarios and includes logging support.
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Windows LAPS automatically manages and backs up a local administrator password for Entra-joined or AD-joined devices. It can also manage and back up the DSRM account password on AD domain controllers.
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