AD CS certificate template capabilities
Observed content change
1 removed passage (18 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines. Review the source to confirm the effect.
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[removed: Applies to: ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016]
Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under CC BY 4.0. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.
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Sections to inspect
- Certificate templates concepts
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: dates and deadlines. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 13 Oct 00:55 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 13 Oct 00:55 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 25 Apr 2025 17:32 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 23:18 UTC
- Last successful check
- 25 Oct 01:36 UTC
- Next check due
- today 01:36 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of 13 Oct 00:55 UTC- 3 undated sections
- 4 with conditions
- 1 recorded change
Requirements, exceptions and scope
Only an enterprise CA can issue certificates based on a certificate template. The templates are stored in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) for use…
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How this timeline changed
Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.
Observed history and review priority
Captured 13 Oct 00:55 UTC; extracted 22 Oct 18:57 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.
Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 0 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 hours.
Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.
Retained observations · 6
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- 13 Oct 00:55 UTC · 8 candidates
- 5 Oct 23:18 UTC · 7 candidates
- 7 Mar 2024 22:05 UTC · 8 candidates
- 20 Feb 2024 07:33 UTC · 7 candidates
- 31 Jan 2024 20:33 UTC · 7 candidates
- 16 Jan 2024 05:40 UTC · 7 candidates
Microsoft's edits
History on GitHubCommits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read today 00:51 UTC.
Related public evidence
- Public source · 13 Oct 2026Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Official documentation · 13 Oct 2026AD CS certificate template requirements
- Public source · 8 Sep 2026Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Public source · 8 Sep 2026Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
- Public source · 8 Sep 2026Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Tampering Vulnerability
- Public source · 8 Sep 2026Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Retained observations
- 13 Oct 00:55 UTC · shown above
- 5 Oct 23:18 UTC
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What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026No field changes are shown for this selection.
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