Other parts in this series
How to: Build a PKI with PowerShell – Part 2 – IIS WebServer
How to: Build a PKI with PowerShell – Part 3 – Offline Root CA
How to: Build a PKI with PowerShell – Part 4 – Enterprise CA
Over the last couple of years, I’ve written a lot about Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Not the “click next, next, finish” type of posts, but the deeper stuff, why you’d pick one design over another, and what trade-offs you’re really making.
Even so, I still see people struggling with PKI. Sometimes even setting up a relatively simple environment turns into a painful mix of conflicting guides, half-implemented best practices, and “set it and forget it” assumptions. The reality is: PKI quietly underpins almost everything we trust in modern IT environments, but it’s often poorly documented, inconsistently implemented, and rarely treated like the living service it actually is.
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