Creating Certificate Hierarchies (186012)

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SUMMARY

This article is a pointer to a white paper available for download. The white paper titled "Creating Certificate Hierarchies with Microsoft Certificate Server Version 1.0" describes how to use Microsoft Certificate Server version 1.0 and certification authority hierarchies with Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 Service Pack 1.

As noted in the Microsoft Windows NT Option Pack release notes, Microsoft Certificate Server 1.0 does not officially support certification authority hierarchies. However, several of the key capabilities of a certification authority hierarchies feature do work and can reasonably be used in an implementation with Exchange Server to achieve most of the desirable characteristics of certification authority hierarchies.

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The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

Download Hier3.exe now

For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

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