Virtual Server 2005 and Service Principal Names (SPN)

I recently had to warnings in the Virtual Server log on my Virtual Server 2005 R2 host: Type:         Warning Event:        1130 Date Time:    27.06.2007 22:28:42 Source:       Virtual Server ComputerName: HOME-VSHOST Category:     Virtual Server User:         NT AUTHORITYNETWORK SERVICE Description:  The service principal names for Virtual Server could not be registered. Constrained delegation cannot be used until …

More on certificates; you cannot use the Certificate Services Web enrollment pages together with Windows Vista

Continuing my posts about the strange world of PKI and certificates. Today I browsed over to my CA using my Windows Vista Ultimate machine. Only to receive this message: ERROR: The certificate enrollment page you are attempting to access cannot be used with this version of Windows. To enable Web certificate enrollment for clients running …

Requesting Web Server certificates from an Enterprise CA

One of the things I have never been able to figure out, is why you cannot request a certificate based on the Web Server template from a Windows Enterprise CA when you are using the CA web pages (<servername>/CertSrv). Ever since Windows 2000 I have occationally stumbeled on this problem but never had time to …