Part 4 - Enabling the new Certificate Templates



Active Directory Certificate Authority Certificates Microsoft

Published on 25 March 2016 by Christopher Lewis. Words: 186. Reading Time: 1 mins.

This is Part 4 of a series of posts on how to configure VMware vSphere 6.x to use Certificates from Microsoft Windows Server Certificate Services.

The following assumes you have completed the steps within the series:

The high level steps below are taken from the VMware KB Article Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL certificate creation in vSphere 6.0

Instructions

Open the Certificate Authority MMC (certsrv) via the Certification Authority icon in the start menu (or right-click on start menu and selecting Run then typing certsrv.msc and click OK)

part4enabli1.png

Expand the Certification Authority, then the <your-enterprise-CA>

part4enabli2.png

Right click on Certificate Templates and select New > Certificate Template to Issue

part4enabli3.png

At the Enable Certificate Templates dialog, select the templates to enable and click OK.

part54.png

The new Certificate Template(s) should now be visible under the Certificate Templates folder.

part55.png

Published on 25 March 2016 by Christopher Lewis. Words: 186. Reading Time: 1 mins.