Posts by Vadims Podāns
Web server certificate enrollment with SAN extension
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Many of windows administrators requires to setup SSL on their web servers and mostly they wish to use certificates with the Subject Alternative Name extension that allows to map a single certificate to a multiple…
Read MoreThe case of accidentally deleted user certificates
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Sometimes users accidentally delete their certificates from personal store. After that users are not able to perform certificate-based tasks, i.e. decrypt files or mail, sign data and authenticate. Some organizations implement Key Archival for certificate and private…
Read MoreUnderstanding Active Directory Certificate Services containers in Active Directory
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Hello folks! Today I want to explain in details about Active Directory containers related to ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services), their purposes and how they work. Intro All ADCS related containers are stored in configuration…
Read MoreYou cannot submit a certificate request generated by Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (EMS) to CA
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. You create certificate certificate by using either Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and save it to a file. When you attempt to submit certificate request to a Windows-based Certification Authority (CA)…
Read More‘The handle is invalid. 0x80070006 (WIN32: 6)’ when dumping CA database
As part of joining PKI Solutions, several blog posts from my old site are re-posted here for visibility and thoroughness. Issue Consider the following scenario: you are dumping CA database by using certutil, PowerShell or any other tool that utilizes ICertView2 interface and at some point you receive the following error Certutil: CertUtil: -view command FAILED: 0x80070006 (WIN32: 6) CertUtil:…
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