Saturday, January 28, 2017

Publish New Certificate Revocation List (CRL) from Offline Root CA to Active Directory and Inetpub

Publish New Certificate Revocation List (CRL) from Offline Root CA to Active Directory and Inetpub

  1. Turn on the Offline Root CA and login with Admin account
  2. Open the Certification Authority Console
  3. Right Click on the "Revoked Certificates" and click Properties.
  4. Set “CRL Publish interval” to a large value (Default is 26 Weeks) and  uncheck “Publish Delta CRL” check-box.

In order to Publish a new CRL from the offline Root CA to the Enterprise Sub CA you need to do the following:

  1. Publish a new CRL on the Root CA, this can be done by Right Click the "Revoked Certificates" - All Tasks - Publish      
  2. Copy the CRL file from the Root CA located under %systemroot%\system32\certsrv\certenroll to the Sub CA Server
  3. Turn off the Root CA
  4. Copy the above file to the InetPub folder (HTTP Path) in the Sub CA server which is by default located under the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Certdata
  5. Open an Admin Command Prompt and run the following command to publish it to the Active Directory (LDAP Path).                                                                                           
certutil -f -dspublish " C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\certdata\RootCA.crl      


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