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wasn't exactly it, but it did get me going in the right direction, thanks a lot
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wasn't exactly it, but it did get me going in the right direction, thanks a lot

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Just as an experiment I have a VMWARE network with 2 Server 2003 Machines, one acting as a Domain Controller the other as a web server and I would like to use Certificate Authority, when I request a Certificate from the DC when accessing the web page created on the DC it works fine, but I can't get IIS to immediately process a request for the certificate from the Web Server. Any Ideas?
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Just as an experiment I have a VMWARE network with 2 Server 2003 Machines, one acting as a Domain Controller the other as a web server and I would like to use Certificate Authority, when I request a Certificate from the DC when accessing the web page created on the DC it works fine, but I can't get IIS to immediately process a request for the certificate from the Web Server. Any Ideas?

Why would a member server not give me the option to request a Certificate immediately in a Server 2003 Environment

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

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).

Windows Server 2003

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.