Re: Installing Certificate Services using sysocmgr

From: Noor Syed (NoorSyed_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:12:06 -0700

The org. where I work requires installing everything silently.
BTW, when MS provided the unattended answer, that means its doable.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -Noor.

"Paul Adare - MVP - Microsoft Virtual PC" wrote:

> In article <C1C74CDD-32A4-48CC-8D7C-5C745E53388A@microsoft.com>, in the
> microsoft.public.win2000.security news group, <=?Utf-8?B?Tm9vciBTeWVk?=
> <Noor Syed@discussions.microsoft.com>> says...
>
> > I am trying to intall Certificate Services silently using sysocmgr on W2K3 server.
> > sysocmgr /i:sysoc.inf /u:unattend.txt
> >
>
> Why are you trying to install Certificate Services this way? I would
> never, ever recommend that you install Certificate Services in this
> fashion.
>
> You might want to have a look at the white papers on the PKI portal,
> www.microsoft.com/pki. Specifically the Best Practices one.
>
> I do a ton of PKI deployments, and PKI is not something you can get
> almost correct. Also, since even a very large organization is not going
> to require a ton of CAs, I don't see the benefit in installing this way.
>
> --
> Paul Adare
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