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ADCS Certification Authority Database query numbers
Hello everyone, I’m back again and today I want to share some thoughts on retrieving massive results from ADCS Certification Authority database. Point of interest As a part of my ongoing project I had to collect database statistics (simply, number of revoked, issued, pending, failed, denied requests) and my concern was query performance on relatively…
Read MoreOCSP Magic Number
The magic number is a value that states when CRLs will be processed over OCSP, specifically it is when the total number of cached OCSP responses from a single OCSP responder URL on behalf of a single certificate authority will stop performing OCSP and start processing CRLs. This will occur if the number of cached…
Read MorePowerShell PKI (PSPKI) 3.7 enhancements – Certification Authority API (part 1)
Hello S-1-1-0, here is another blog post in the PSPKI v3.7 enhancement blog series. Today I will talk about another interesting work done in PSPKI. Intro In one of my previous posts, I’ve outlined a very general roadmap for PKI library and the move towards the .NET Core. There are several obstacles for the move…
Read MorePowerShell PKI (PSPKI) 3.7 enhancements – security descriptors
Today I’m starting a series of blog posts where I will explore new features we have added to PowerShell PKI module, version 3.7. First post is dedicated to security descriptors. Major changes in PSPKI Within PSPKI module, we had an ability to manage security descriptors (access control lists) for Certification Authority can certificate template objects.…
Read MorePowerShell PKI (PSPKI) 3.7 enhancements – OCSP Revocation Configuration Management
Hello everyone, today is a second post in OCSP server management in Windows PowerShell. First blog post in the series was about OCSP server management. Today, I will discuss about Online Responder revocation configuration management using Windows PowerShell. Intro Every single Microsoft Online Responder is capable to provide certificate status for multiple different certification authorities.…
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