From the course: Windows Server 2016: Active Directory Certificate Services
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Archiving private keys - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2016: Active Directory Certificate Services
Archiving private keys
- [Instructor] Sometimes certificates and private keys can be corrupted or lost, and that can be a real problem. In a Windows Server 2012 R2 course on identity and access solutions, I introduced a section very similar to this by pointing out that what we're about to do is both useful and risky, and both points still apply in Server 2016. So let me open here by discussing the risk. A deleted certificate can be recovered easily enough. From the Certification Authority, I can select Issued Certificates, double click on a certificate, and from the Details tab, I can copy that certificate out to a file. But getting the private key back is another issue altogether. We've been issuing certificates to provide security. These certificates might be used to prove our identity or to encrypt network transmissions or to encrypt locally stored files. If our solution to someone losing their key is to have a spare key, that means a copy of the key is out there somewhere, and if active directory and…
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