Performing Certificate Enrollment

Microsoft® Certificate Server issues digital certificates that enable server and client authentication under the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The process of obtaining a digital certificate is called certificate enrollment.

Note "Server authentication" refers not to Certificate Server itself, but to a server such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) that provides access to clients that choose to authenticate the server, and will themselves be authenticated by the server.

This topic explains the following:

• Client certificate enrollment
  
  
• Supported Certificate Formats
  
  
• Certificate Enrollment Tools Web Page
  
  
• Web Server Enrollment Page
  
  
• Microsoft Internet Explorer Enrollment
  
  
• Netscape Navigator Enrollment