Planning Your Public Key Infrastructure

Deploying Your Public Key Infrastructure

After your public key design and deployment strategies have been validated and refined by pilot programs, you can deploy the PKI into your production environment. The following list shows a basic production rollout process that you can use to deploy your PKI.

Deploying the PKI includes the following activities:

Scheduling production rollout in stages
Providing training and support for production users
Installing CAs
Installing and configuring support systems or applications
Configuring the certificates to be issued
Configuring publication of certificate revocation lists
Configuring public key Group Policy
Configuring certificate renewal and enrollment
Issuing certificates to users, computers, and certification authorities