Automating Windows Auto Enrollment (WSTEP) with an Entrust-hosted Enrollment Gateway

Entrust PKIaaS integrates into Microsoft Active Directory environments to automate enrollment with the following Microsoft protocols.

Protocol

Purpose

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​X.509 Certificate Enrollment Policy Protocol (MS-XCEP)

Defines the interactions between a requesting client and a responding server to exchange a certificate enrollment policy, which is the collection of certificate templates and certificate issuers available to the requestor for X.509 certificate enrollment.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-xcep

WS-Trust X.509v3 Token Enrollment Extensions (MS-WSTEP)

Define the message formats and server behavior to manually or automatically enroll X.509 certificates for users and computers.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-wstep

See below for the required configuration steps.

See the following video for a quick guide on the required steps.