Free PKI & Certificate Management Console

Dmitry Sotnikov recently blogged that PowerShell MVP Vadims Podāns has posted a CA Management Console that can be downloaded here

The solution based on PowerShell and runs in the PowerGUI console provides the following:

  • Certificate Authorities management:
    • CRL Distribution Points (CDP)
    • Authority Information Access (AIA) settings
    • Review CRLs
    • Publish new CRLs
    • Change CRL publishing periods including overlap settings
    • Revoked Certificates
    • Issued Certificates
    • Pending requests
    • Failed requests
    • Issued certificate templates
    • Revoke/unrevoke certificates
    • Issue or deny pending requests for certificates
    • Add/remove certificate templates to issue
    • Change CRL/CRT/OCSP URL priorities
  • Local certificate store management:
    • Import/Export certificates using various certificate types (such CER/pkcs12/pkcs7/SST)
    • Copy/move certificates between stores
    • Delete certificate from store
    • Validate certificates passing them through certificate chaining engine
    • Sign files
  • Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Responders management
    • Review and change OCSP Responder settings
    • Change OCSP URL priorities

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