Command Line Utilities

Microsoft® Certificate Server provides the following command line utilities:

• CertHier is used to complete installation of a Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchy. For more information, see Installing a Certificate Authority Hierarchy and CertHier.
  
  
• CertReq is used to submit certificate requests to Certificate Server. For more information, see Creating and Submitting a Certificate Request and CertReq.
  
  
• CertUtil is used to resubmit pending requests, revoke certificates (more easily accomplished from the Certificate Administration Log Utility), publish certificate revocation lists, retrieve the CA certificates, and perform a variety of other tasks. For more information, see Publishing CRLs, Examining Configuration Information, and CertUtil.

For a complete description of the syntax for each of the command line utilities see Command Line Summary.

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