We have an Enterprise CA, with the Sub CA running on Windows server 2012 R2 VM, configured with Web Enrollment, Web Enrollment Services, Policy Web Service etc all on the same server. The Root CA is also a Windows server 2012 R2 VM and is offline.
We have both Kerberos Authentication certificates deployed for LDAPS and a number of Domain Admins utilizing Smart Card certificates for domain logons.
Since we're planning to do an in-place upgrade, what do you recommend that first gets upgraded, the Root CA or the Sub CA? Also, any things I should take care of pre upgrade and post upgrade, taking into consideration the criticality of both LDAPS and Smartcard services? Apart from taking a snapshot backup in case something goes wrong and I would need to restore the snapshot accordingly.
Thanks in advance :)
Thanks for the feedback provided. In our case it was decided that an in-place upgrade is to take place. I believe the above steps, excluding the backup part, are more intended for a migration scenario.
Thanks and regards