Overview
This article covers how to quickly and easily locate a Microsoft Certificate Authority in your Active Directory Domain.
Option 1
Using the Active Directory Users & Computers MMC, search for the ‘Cert Publishers’ group.
Double click ‘Cert Publishers’ in the search results, and you’ve got your answer.
Option 2
From a command prompt, run the following command:
certutil -config - -ping
And again, you’ve got your answer.
certutil -config - -ping X500DC1.x500.co.uk\X500-CA Connecting to X500DC1.x500.co.uk\X500-CA ... Server "X500-CA" ICertRequest2 interface is alive (16ms) CertUtil: -ping command completed successfully.
