Active Directory Certificate Services – AIA , CRL and OCSP

This is the third article of the ADCS series.

Before reading this article, please go through the previous two articles in this series which are :

In this article, we will discuss few important concepts related to Certificate : 1) AIA 2) CRL 3) OCSP

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Active Directory Certificate Services: Enterprise CA Architecture

This is the second article of the Active Directory Certificate Service (ADCS) series. Before you read this article, please ensure that you have read my previous article :

Active Directory Certificate Services – Digital Certificate Overview

In that article, we took a deep dive on the basic concepts of Cryptography and Digital Certificate. We discussed how a secure communication can be performed using Digital Certificate. Finally, we introduced Enterprise PKI and compared it with External PKI.

In this article, we will take a deep dive on ADCS , and how it provides a complete solution of the Enterprise PKI need. We will also discuss concepts and terminologies associated with ADCS.

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Active Directory : Design Considerations and Best Practices

Active Directory (AD) is one of the most critical components of any IT infrastructure. In a Windows-based environment, almost all the applications and tools are integrated with Active Directory for authentication, directory browsing, and single sign-on. An outage in Active Directory can stall the entire IT operations of an organization.

Due to this criticality, the first priority of an AD Admin is to ensure the stability, availability, and security of the Active Directory environment.

In this article, we will discuss some of the design considerations and best practices which would keep your AD environment healthy and stable.

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