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You can renew the CA before it expires. &nbsp;This way, the CA will last longer than its original expiry date. &nbsp;
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You can renew the CA before it expires.  This way, the CA will last longer than its original expiry date.  

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I have a CA that is expiring in 1 year. &nbsp;I wish to create user certificates for 30 years, but MS support says that they cannot be created for a period longer than the CA expiration. &nbsp;I do not want to re-create my certificate authority to do this, since i have a lot of user certs already out there. &nbsp;I found the registry entries ValidityPeriod &amp;&nbsp;ValidityUnits, and changed them to reflect the 30 years I need, but since they exceed the CA that is installed I would have to re-issue that new CA to get those registry changes.<br />
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How do i do this?<br />
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--dan
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I have a CA that is expiring in 1 year.  I wish to create user certificates for 30 years, but MS support says that they cannot be created for a period longer than the CA expiration.  I do not want to re-create my certificate authority to do this, since i have a lot of user certs already out there.  I found the registry entries ValidityPeriod & ValidityUnits, and changed them to reflect the 30 years I need, but since they exceed the CA that is installed I would have to re-issue that new CA to get those registry changes.

How do i do this?

--dan

MS Certificate Authority expiring

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