Certificate Templates allow customization of certificates issued by Certificate Services, including both how certificates are issued and what they contain.

Although all issued certificates are based on a certificate template, certificate templates can only be issued by an enterprise certification authority running on Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Enterprise Edition, or Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003, Datacenter Edition.

• For tips about using Certificate Templates, see Certificate Templates Best practices.
  
• For help with specific tasks, see Certificate Templates How To....
  
• For general background information, see Certificate Templates Concepts.
  
• For problem-solving instructions, see Certificate Templates Troubleshooting.
  

Note

• This feature is not included on computers running the Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003, Web Edition, operating system. For more information, see Overview of Windows Server 2003, Web Edition.