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Step 3. Set Up ADS, Certificate Authority, and CA IdentityMinder

To establish trust of root certification authorities in post-Windows 2000 servers, you must use trusted root certification authority in group Policy to distribute your organization's root certificates. For more information, see the section Add a trusted root certification authority to a Group on the TechNet library for Windows 2003:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc738131%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

For exact steps on how to add a trusted root certification authority to a Group Policy object, see the section Manage Trusted Root Certificates on the TechNet library for Windows 2008:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754841.aspx

You can set up ADS, the Certificate Authority, and CA IdentityMinder on a single system or distributed across multiple computers.