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Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is a Windows Server role for issuing and managing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates used in secure communication and authentication protocols.

In the Certification Authority MMC, click Certificate Templates. On the Action menu, point to New, and then click Certificate Template to Issue. The Enable Certificate Templates dialog box opens. In Enable Certificate Templates, click the name of the certificate template that you just configured, and then click OK.

Right click the GPO policy and select Edit. Navigate to Computer configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update. Select "Allow signed content from intranet Microsoft update service location" and click Edit policy settings. Select Enabled and click OK.

Once certificate-based authentication is enabled on the tenant, all users in the tenant will see the option to sign in with a certificate. Only users who are enabled for certificate-based authentication will be able to authenticate using the X. 509 certificate.

To view certificates: Log in to the AD domain controller. Use an administrator account. Open the MMC. Look for Certificates (Local Computer) under Console Root. If no certificate is displayed, add it as follows: ... Expand Certificates (Local Computer). Expand Enterprise Trust. Select Certificates.

Configure the CA Exit Module to publish certificates to Active Directory. In the Certification Authority snap-in, right-click the CA, and then select Properties. On the Exit Module tab, select Configure. In the properties for the Exit Module, select the Allow certificates to be published in the Active Directory box.

Configure the CA Exit Module to publish certificates to Active Directory. In the Certification Authority snap-in, right-click the CA, and then select Properties. On the Exit Module tab, select Configure. In the properties for the Exit Module, select the Allow certificates to be published in the Active Directory box.

So, what does this do? Well the answer is that it publishes the resulting certificate to the userCertificate attribute to the user or computer depending on whether the template is a user or computer template.