Publish certificate policy securely to disconnected domain clients

Use this document to connect an official requirement or behavior to observable evidence: Publish certificate policy securely to disconnected domain clients. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.

Source fact:

The official Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service overview from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:

• The policy web service supplies enrollment-policy information to non-domain or temporarily disconnected domain clients. The research record locates this support at Opening overview.
• It queries AD DS over LDAP or LDAPS and supports policy retrieval, enrollment, and renewal over HTTPS. The research record locates this support at Opening overview.

Only the traced statements above are asserted as source facts. Apply the review to certification authorities, templates, enrollment paths, certificate subjects, private-key handling, and delegated PKI roles after confirming that the source and deployed context match.

What the source does not establish

Protect the IIS application identity, LDAP path, server certificate, and authentication choice. A correct source interpretation can still be inapplicable to a particular design. Confirm Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, domain-controller reachability, HTTP or LDAP publication, and protected administrative identities, ownership, and change authority instead of treating documented behavior as a deployment guarantee.

Applicability questions

• For source statement 1 at Opening overview, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?
• For source statement 2 at Opening overview, which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?
• What inventory proves which parts of certification authorities, templates, enrollment paths, certificate subjects, private-key handling, and delegated PKI roles are in and out of scope?
• Which condition in Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, domain-controller reachability, HTTP or LDAP publication, and protected administrative identities must be healthy before evidence is trustworthy?
• What result would disprove the working assumption and return the issue to the owner?

DSE recommendation:

DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Begin by recording scope and current state before deciding whether a change is warranted. Record the source location, examined part of certification authorities, templates, enrollment paths, certificate subjects, private-key handling, and delegated PKI roles, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.

Translate the conclusion into change control only after documenting dependencies, impact, test method, expected signals, failure signals, and restoration steps. Include Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, domain-controller reachability, HTTP or LDAP publication, and protected administrative identities, while excluding secrets and sensitive personal or topology data from ordinary tickets.

Verification and evidence

Keep the source locations Opening overview; Opening overview adjacent to the sanitized artifacts used for comparison. Prefer CA and template exports, enrollment tests, certificate chains, access-control entries, event logs, and revocation-path checks, with enough identity and timing data for an independent recheck.

Record the decision even when no change is made, including uncertainty and the next trigger. Use safe testing conditions for disruptive work, preserve rollback proof, and revisit the conclusion after relevant platform, dependency, vendor, or ownership changes.

Official references

• Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service overview — Microsoft