I had an interesting one recently when submitting a certificate request to a Windows Certificate Authority using certreq.exe. The error that came back was: The disposition message is “Error Parsing Request The request subject name is invalid or too long. 0x80094001 (-2146877439)” I found several links to possible solutions but, as it turns out, the problem in… Read More »
Here’s something I put together to handle bulk certificate requests for submission to an Enterprise CA using certreq.exe. Enjoy! ######################################################### # # Name: Request-Certificates.ps1 # Author: Tony Murray # Version: 1.0 # Date: 4/12/2012 # Comment: PowerShell script to submit certificate # requests in bulk using certreq.exe # ######################################################### # Specify the location of the… Read More »
Something you may have noticed in your journey on the road to AD enlightenment is that if you deploy a new Microsoft Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) and publish the default templates, your Domain Controllers will automatically enroll for a certificate. The template used is the DomainController V1 certificate, which has been around since Windows 2000… Read More »
The other day I was in an environment where I had to find what Certification Authorities (CAs) were in place. With nobody immediately available to help me out, I stumbled around for bit before I worked out how to find them. Method 1. Query the membership of the Cert Publishers group. Cert Publishers is a… Read More »