The administrator of a certification authority (CA) can manage certificate enrollment by:
- Configuring certificate enrollment and
autoenrollment options on certificate templates. For more
information, see Issuing Certificates Based on Certificate
Templates (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142333).
- Enabling certificate autoenrollment options
in Group Policy. For more information, see Configure Certificate
Autoenrollment.
- Configuring the default request handling
options for the CA. For more information, see Set the Default Action
Upon Receipt of a Certificate Request.
Note You can specify whether a stand-alone CA will hold incoming certificate requests as pending or automatically issue the certificate. In most cases, for security reasons, all incoming certificate requests to a stand-alone CA should be marked as pending.
- Selecting whether to allow certificates to be
published to the file system. Actual publication will only occur if
the certificate request specifies a file system location where the
certificate is to be published. For more information, see Publish Certificates to
the File System.
- Evaluating and acting on pending certificate
requests. For more information, see Review Pending
Certificate Requests.