My coworker wants to forego the pki infrastructure and only install an enterprise CA 
root on our DC or a dedicated machine. What are you thoughts on this?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO 
(HP-Germany,ex1)
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 1:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] PKI Infrastructure Question

good approach, especially when using 2003 which allows you to contrain the 
capabilities of the subordinate CAs (should at least configure them with a basic 
constraint that contains a pathLenConstraint=2, so that people can't add other 
subordinates underneath your planned subordinates)

making the root stand-alone and taking it offline is also common practice.
subordinates as Enterprise CAs will give you the most feature-benefits (Auto 
enrolement etc.) and I don't have an issue with putting these on DCs (you'll have to 
protect your DCs anyways)

/Guido

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer Fountain
Sent: Freitag, 19. M�rz 2004 18:15
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] PKI Infrastructure Question

We are finally getting around to implementing the PKI infrastructure here and would 
like some advice.  

I had emailed several days ago about Ldap - unix box authenicating to AD
- and I got that working (in my test lab).  

Here is what I was going to implement and would like some advice or direction if this 
is way off base.

Root (Stand-alone) CA (offline)
Subordinate Enterprise CA on DC

Is this normal practice or completely wrong.  Would you recommend install on DC or is 
that a major NO NO.

Any thoughts, or advice...

Kind Regards,

Jennifer Fountain
3400 E. Walnut Street
Colmar, PA 18915
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