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Approve-CertificateRequest

Synopsis

Approves certificate for a certificate request that is placed in 'Pending Requests' node on the CA server.

Syntax

Approve-CertificateRequest [-Request] <Object> [<CommonParameters>]

Description

Issues certificate for a certificate request that is placed in 'Pending Requests' node on the CA server. This is equivalent to manually issuing a certificate request from Certification Authority MMC snap-in.

Note: for this command to succeed, the certificate request must be pending.

Parameters

-Request <Object>

Specifies the pending request object. Pending request object can be retrieved by running Get-PendingRequest command.

Required? True
Position? 0
Default value
Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters? False

<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, InformationAction, InformationVariable,
WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable and OutVariable.
For more information, see about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).

Inputs

SysadminsLV.PKI.Management.CertificateServices.Database.AdcsDbRow

Outputs

SysadminsLV.PKI.Utils.IServiceOperationResult

Notes

Examples

Example 1

PS C:\> Get-CertificationAuthority CompanyCA1 | Get-PendingRequest -ID 10,14 | Approve-CertificateRequest

This command will attempt to approve certificate requests with ID 10 and 14 and issue certificates.

Related links

Get-CertificationAuthority
Connect-CertificationAuthority
Get-PendingRequest
Deny-CertificateRequest
Remove-AdcsDatabaseRow

Minimum PowerShell version support

  • Windows PowerShell 3.0

Operating System Support

  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 all editions
  • Windows Server 2012 all editions
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 all editions
  • Windows Server 2016 all editions
  • Windows Server 2019 all editions
  • Windows Server 2022 all editions