How to Install Certificate Enrollment Web Service

After my previous post on How to Install Certificate Services on Windows Server 2008 R2.

You’ve now got a Certificate Authority- Root CA, that is capable of issuing certificates to your servers and users.  You can go back through the wizard and install additional CA components, for example, that will allow you to issue certificates to users and computers that are/are not part of your domain.  That option is called ‘Certificate Enrollment Web Service’. Go through the following steps:

1.       Select Add Role Services from the Active Directory Certificate Services Role. Wizard will guide you through.

2.       From the Select Role Services choose Certificate Enrollment Web Service, Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service and click Next.

Select Role Services

3.       For Specify CA for certificate Enrollment Web Services; leave the default CA settings (i.e. CA name), Next

Specify CA for certificate Enrollment Web Services

4.       Select Windows Integrated Authentication Type, Click Next

Windows Integrated Authentication

5.       Before doing this step, please add your administrator account to the IIS_USER group

6.       Specify service account credentials for certificate enrollment web service; add your administrator account and password. Click Ok then, Next

service account credentials

7.       Installation result page will show you the result and close the page after you are informed.

installation result page

These are all for installing a Root Certificate Authority (CA) and Enrollment web service for Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Service.

Hope it helps!!

How to Install Certificate Services on Windows Server 2008 R2

Considering that you have already installed Active Directory.

1.  In the  ‘Server Manager’, select Roles in the left pane, then Add Roles in the right pane.  Place a check mark in the check box for Active Directory Certificate Services.  Then click Next.

Active Directory Certificate Services

2.       Select Certification Authority and Certification Authority Web Enrollment role service, click Next.

Select Role Service

3.       Select Enterprise CA from Specify Setup Type then

Select Enterprise CA

Next.

4.       From Specify CA type choose Root CA, Next

From Specify CA type choose Root CA

5.       Setup Private key section choose Create a new private key, Next

Create a new private key

6.       Configure cryptography for CA; leave default settings, Next

Configure Cryptography for CA

7.       Configure CA name; here you can change common name for this CA as per your need or leave the default settings. It will generate according to your domain name and computer name.

common name for this CA

8.       There are some dependencies to IIS web server, so select it to install and choose all roles services from iis, Next

9.       Click install to start the installation process.

Confirm Installation

10.   Installation result page will show you the result of the setup, click close to exit the Windows.

Installation result page

Installing Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services in this way is very straightforward approach but useful for the beginner.

In my Next post Installing Certificate Enrollment Web Service i will cover how to install role services such as Certificate Enrollment Web Service to request Web server, User certificates to this CA through web.

ertificate Enrollment Web Service