Category Archives: Certificate Authority

The request subject name is invalid or too long

I had an interesting one recently when submitting a certificate request to a Windows Certificate Authority using certreq.exe.  The error that came back was: The disposition message is “Error Parsing Request The request subject name is invalid or too long. 0x80094001 (-2146877439)” I found several links to possible solutions but, as it turns out, the problem in… Read More »

PowerShell script to submit certificate requests in bulk using certreq.exe

Here’s something I put together to handle bulk certificate requests for submission to an Enterprise CA using certreq.exe.  Enjoy! ######################################################### # # Name: Request-Certificates.ps1 # Author: Tony Murray # Version: 1.0 # Date: 4/12/2012 # Comment: PowerShell script to submit certificate # requests in bulk using certreq.exe # ######################################################### # Specify the location of the… Read More »

How to find your Certification Authorities and determine what type they are

The other day I was in an environment where I had to find what Certification Authorities (CAs) were in place.  With nobody immediately available to help me out, I stumbled around for bit before I worked out how to find them. Method 1.  Query the membership of the Cert Publishers group.  Cert Publishers is a… Read More »