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Start-CertificationAuthority

Synopsis

Starts certificate services on specified Certification Authority.

Syntax

Start-CertificationAuthority [-CertificationAuthority] <CertificateAuthority[]> [<CommonParameters>]

Description

Starts certificate services on specified Certification Authority.

Parameters

-CertificationAuthority <CertificateAuthority[]>

Specifies the particular Certification Authority. This object can be retrieved by running Get-CertificationAuthority 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

PKI.CertificateServices.CertificateAuthority

Outputs

None.

Notes

Examples

Example 1

PS C:\> Get-CertificationAuthority ca01.company.com | Start-CertificationAuthority

Starts certificates cervices on a CA server hosted on 'ca01.company.com' server.

Example 2

PS C:\> Get-CertificationAuthority | Start-CertificationAuthority

Starts certificate services on all Certification Authorities in the current forest.

Related links

Get-CertificationAuthority
Connect-CertificationAuthority
Stop-CertificationAuthority
Restart-CertificationAuthority

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