What Are Certificate Templates?

Certificate Templates allow Administrators to customize distribution the form of the certificate, the certificate is defined Purposes, and authorized the use of these types with a certificate allowed. Administrators can make a template, and then you can quickly deploy their businesses, through the use of built-in graphical user interface or command-line management tools.

Associated with each certificate DACL is its template, it defines what Principal permission to read and Security Configuration templates and template-based automatic registration or registration certificate. Certificate Template and capability D DS a defined forest valid. If more than one CA Enterprise to run Active Directory forest, permission changes will affect all the CA.

When you define a template certificate, the definition of certificate templates should be available Forest All CA. This is done by storing the information on the certificate template to achieve Configure our context, where CN = Configuration, DC = and ForestRootName. Replication this information depends on Active Directory replication schedules and certificate template until the copy is complete are not available in all CA. Storage and replication is done automatically.