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Good question.<br />
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The fact that this product supports Active Directory and GPOs - while not actually being able to make it a domain controller makes it more interesting.<br />
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My best answer on this would be, yes. &nbsp;As long as AD is supported and the CA is on another DC in AD, then it should work as expected.<br />
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Good question.

The fact that this product supports Active Directory and GPOs - while not actually being able to make it a domain controller makes it more interesting.

My best answer on this would be, yes.  As long as AD is supported and the CA is on another DC in AD, then it should work as expected.



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I have sent a request to Microsoft via my channels to get the definitive answer for you.<br />
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I have sent a request to Microsoft via my channels to get the definitive answer for you.



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Netman66, please let me know if you found the results. &nbsp;We would like the datacenter server to operate as the CA. &nbsp;
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Netman66, please let me know if you found the results.  We would like the datacenter server to operate as the CA.  

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I know if does not contain many of the features of 2003 Server and Advanced Server, but I could not find on MS's site whether it can have a Certificate Authotiry for file encryption installed or not.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
VSACIT (B)
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I know if does not contain many of the features of 2003 Server and Advanced Server, but I could not find on MS's site whether it can have a Certificate Authotiry for file encryption installed or not.

Thanks,
VSACIT (B)

(B) Does Windows 2003 Storage Server contain Certificate Autority for Encryption?

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).