Hi all, Some time ago a customer of mine wanted to develop PowerShell scripts to manage printers in their clustered environment. They wanted to use WMI for that. The problem they found is that while they could list the printers on a stand-alone...

Hi all, Some time ago I had a customer how had developed a custom credential provider to use with a third-party smartcard provider . This credential provider was a wrapper of MS Smartcard Credential Provider . They also put a credential provider...

Hi all, The other day a customer of mine was trying to compile and run this CertEnroll sample of mine: How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll and .NET (C#) I had developed this sample against .NET 2.0 some time ago, and it compiled...

Hi all, A customer of mine wanted to set Issuer Alternative Name ( XCN_OID_ISSUER_ALT_NAME2 - "2.5.29.18" ) extension to his certificate requests in C# in the same way we did this, and he didn't know how: How to add Subject Alternative Name to...

Hi all, If you are creating certificate requests to enroll certificates programmatically and using a code like the following: How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll and .NET (C#) , you may need to export the enrolled certificate after...

Hi all, You may know already this white paper to configure the Certificate Enrollment Web Services : Certificate Enrollment Web Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 " This paper explains how certificate enrollment Web services work in Windows...

Hi all, One of my customers was creating certificate requests programmatically with CertEnroll and a code like the following: How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll and .NET (C#) . He wanted to set Friendly Name for the enrolled certificate...

Hi all, The other day a customer of mine was creating certificate requests with a code like the following: How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll and .NET (C#) . He wanted to set the certificate's Key Usage to Digital Signature instead...

Hi all, The other day a customer of mine was creating certificate requests with a code like the following: How to create a certificate request with CertEnroll and .NET (C#) . After he enrolled the certificates, he realized that when he tried to...

Hi all, We've already seen How to add Subject Alternative Name to your certificate requests (C#) . What if we want to set Alternative Directory Name ( XCN_CERT_ALT_NAME_DIRECTORY_NAME ) in addition to Subject Alternative Name ( XCN_CERT_ALT_NAME_RFC822_NAME...

Hi all, The other day a customer of mine wanted to add Subject Alternative Name ( szOID_SUBJECT_ALT_NAME2 - "2.5.29.17" ) extension to his certificate requests in C# and he didn't know how. We have IX509ExtensionAlternativeNames interface for...

Hi all, Some time ago I mentioned a Microsoft SDK sample that uses CertEnroll to access the Certificate Enrollment Web Services and enroll a certificate using a template : How to access the new Certificate Enrollment Web Services programmatically...