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This document provides an overview of Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) in Windows Server® 2012. AD CS is the Server Role that allows you to build a public key infrastructure (PKI) and provide public key cryptography, digital certificates, and digital signature capabilities for your organization. AD CS provides customizable services for issuing and managing digital certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies. The digital certificates that AD CS provides can be used to encrypt and digitally sign electronic documents and messages. These digital certificates can be used for authentication of computer, user, or device accounts on a network. You can use AD CS to enhance security by binding the identity of a person, device, or service to a corresponding private key. AD CS gives you a cost-effective, efficient, and secure way to manage the distribution and use of certificates.

Advanced Certificate Issuance And Lifecycle Management. Discover and manage all your SSL Digital Certificates automatically. Secure, reliable and centralized management platform. Helps you self-administer, instantly provision and control all SSL/PKI. Expired SSL certificates can cause systems to break, services to go down, and trust in your business to wane. Keeping track of digital certificates and their renewal dates is a big job and it's going to get harder. Need for a mechanism to administer certificates effectively. Flexible and reliable system for digital certificate issuance and lifecycle management. Centralizes and automates management of cryptographic keys and digital certificates. Ensures that certificates do not expire unexpectedly. Secure, tiered cloud-based administration. Microsoft Active Directory integration. Certificate Discovery Tool finds all certificates no matter who issued them. Administrative protection using two-factor authentication and IP address validation.