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This document provides an overview on Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), in Windows Server®. AD CS allows you to create a public key infrastructure (PKI), and provide digital certificates, digital signature capabilities, and public key cryptography for your organization. AD CS offers customizable services to issue and manage digital certificates that are used in software security systems that use public key technologies. AD CS offers digital certificates that can be used to encrypt or digitally sign electronic documents. These digital certificates can be used to authenticate computer, user, and device accounts on a network. AD CS can be used to increase security by binding the identity a person, device or service to a corresponding key. AD CS allows you to manage the distribution of certificates in a cost-effective, secure, and efficient manner.

Digital certificates provide high security for encryption, strong authentication, and digital signatures. You need the right services for key management and certificate management in an enterprise PKI. TOPKI (Trusted Open PKI), a PKI platform that distributes X.509 certificates to all users and devices, and provides private keys as well. TOPKI has components that can be used to manage specific aspects of the certificate lifecycle. TOPKI's PKI software components can be integrated with Active Directory, other PKI systems, and Mobile Device Management systems. TOPKI allows seamless adoption of managed PKI services. This allows you to request certificates from trusted public CAs located in the cloud. Open source CAs can also be used to auto-enroll internal certificates. TOPKI PKI products are also available to enhance your existing Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).