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Enterprise CA - Certificate AutoEnrollment Policy on a non-domain computer HowTo

I have completed the following steps thus far:
*Setup Active Directory Certificate Services
*Setup Certificate Enrollment Web Service
*Setup Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service
*Created duplicate template of computer template
*Created a user account with permissions to the new template (and change the template to require the Subject Name to be supplied in the request)
*Issued the new template
*Reset IIS to update template cache in the Certificate Policy Web Service
*Used Add-CertificateEnrollmentPolicyServer on the non-domain computer to add the Enterprise CA's policy service (used the new user account as the credentials)

When I open the certificates mmc and attempt to get a new certificate using the policy, the list is blank. I'm am not sure what I am missing.

Side note: if there is a way to request the certificate from the policy service with powershell I'd be interested to know that too.

Peter Hutchison

I do not think Auto-Enrollment works for non-domain computers.
You should use the CA web service via https://servername/certserv to request for certificates on non-domain computers or use the certreq.exe utility. The only powershell commands I know of, come with Exchange Servers e.g.
New-ExchangeCertificate
Get-ExchangeCertificate
Import-ExchangeCertificate

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/098f858a-3e89-48d2-828e-274487033f6b/how-to-request-certificate-from-a-nondomain-computer?forum=winserversecurity

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Craig Beck

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Ogandos

Like Craig Beck specified, it is not possible the use neither of AD Templates or auto enrolments.

byt3

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I am using the wrong term, I think what I am trying to do is setup auto renewal. I do understand that I need to initiate the request myself. I guess I can't do it using the mmc console. When I look into using the cerutil.exe later today, I'll come back on this thread if I have any questions.

Thanks for the link. I'll need it for cerutil.exe guidance.

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Craig sent me down the right track to eventually finding that I needed to use certreq.exe for a windows 2008 machine I have. I just need to wait for AD replication before I was able to see the template I had created through the policy server I added to the non-domain PC