While configuring a new Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) environment on Windows Server 2025 in Azure, I ran into an unexpected problem while configuring certificate templates. The Certification Authority (CA) itself was working correctly and was configured to use the “Legacy Cryptographic Service Provider“. Cryptography API: Next Generation (CNG) was also functioning normally, and certificate templates could be created using the default settings and succesfully create certificates. But…
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So, this turned out to be an interesting quest. I had reinstalled my lab Enterprise (issuing) CA, configured the server, issued new CA certificates, and created a new Remote Desktop certificate template. The next step should have been simple: publish the template.
Except it wasn’t. When I tried to publish the template, it didn’t show up.
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In the previous blog post I wrote about how to join a Ubuntu 22.04 machine to a Microsoft Active Directory domain. In this follow up post I want to dive a little deeper into the configuration files, a bug I ran into during testing and setting some advanced security settings for access management. The latter is crazy easy actually, keep on reading.
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