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AnswerCan I undo the change that allowed me to Ignore Offline CRL Errors on our CA?

  • Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:37 PMBrad Hearn Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
    We recently had an issuing CA that did not have it's CRL renewed from the offline Root CA. So of course the CA services could not be started.  

    I disabled the offline CRL check using the following command "certutil –setreg ca\CRLFlags +CRLF_REVCHECK_IGNORE_OFFLINE"

    So now that we have learned our lesson and are makking sure that we have a proper maintenace plan in place. One of my questions is if it is ok to leave this setting as is. And if not, how do I reverse the change?

    Brad

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  • Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:04 PMBrian Komar [MVP]MVPUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    You're going to kick yourself <G>
    certutil –setreg ca\CRLFlags -CRLF_REVCHECK_IGNORE_OFFLINE
    net stop certsvc && net start certsvc

    and then, throw away all knowledge of this "poor PKI person" command <G>
    Brian
    • Marked As Answer byBrad Hearn Friday, November 06, 2009 2:22 PM
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  • Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:04 PMBrian Komar [MVP]MVPUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    You're going to kick yourself <G>
    certutil –setreg ca\CRLFlags -CRLF_REVCHECK_IGNORE_OFFLINE
    net stop certsvc && net start certsvc

    and then, throw away all knowledge of this "poor PKI person" command <G>
    Brian
    • Marked As Answer byBrad Hearn Friday, November 06, 2009 2:22 PM
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  • Friday, November 06, 2009 2:23 PMBrad Hearn Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
    Consider me kicked :) Thanks Brian.