Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of patricktam
patricktam

asked on

Microsoft Certificate Server Database Replication

Our company has two Microsoft Certificate Server on two different sites. They are both installed on MS-Server 2012 R2 server and joined to the same AD domain. It is important and essential that the two Certificate Server database content should be synchronized with each other.

As I am new to Certificate Server and would like to know if the two Certificate Server database content (Including the CRL - Cert Revocation List) will be replicated and sync with each other through the AD replication process or other method need to be implemented ?

Is there a way to shorten the replicate time for the two Certificate servers ?

Appreciate your advice in advance.

Regards
Patrick Tam
Avatar of David Johnson, CD
David Johnson, CD
Flag of Canada image

what is your certificate hierarchy?   Root Server and 2 Issuing?  or 2 Root Servers?  Do the CRL's for both point to the same address and same with the AIA?  If you have two Root CA's then you have to do a tear-down and a rebuild and rebuild it correctly the next time.  They don't sync via active directory and they don't have to be synced they do have to have the same top-level certificate in the chain though.

You should have an offline root CA and import the root ca certificate via group policy to all computers, you should use a request from each issuing CA to the root CA for a certificate, issue these two certs, remember which one goes to which machine, install them, now these issuing CA's can issue certs without a problem.  point the CRL's and AIA's to the same web location i.e. pki.example.com
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of Mahesh
Mahesh
Flag of India image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Avatar of patricktam
patricktam

ASKER

Thanks guy for giving me some insight.
Good hints for my further investigation and testing