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Q216904: How to Access a Client Authentication Certificate

Article: Q216904
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): winnt:5.0
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Last Modified: 04-FEB-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0 
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SUMMARY
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You can access a user's Client Authentication certificate from the Windows 2000
Active Directory. A Client Authentication certificate is an optional
UserCertificate property on the user object.

MORE INFORMATION
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The following Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script code will access the
UserCertificate object:

  Dim oUser, vCert
  Dim strName, strDN
  StrName = "CN=Frodo Baggins"
  StrDN = "CN=Users,DC=iis,DC=nttest,DC=microsoft,DC=com"
  Set oUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strName & "," & strDN)
  vCert = oUser.userCertificate
  Set oUser = Nothing

The strDN must be replaced with the domain information for your environment. In
this example, it is set to the Users object in the IIS.nttest.microsoft.com
domain.

You can set a user's client authentication certificate by using the Directory
Management administration tool.

Note: If Microsoft Certificate Services is installed, then the certificate is
automatically added to the user's list of certificates when the client requests
a certificate.

Additional query words:

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Technology        : kbiisSearch kbiis500
Version           : winnt:5.0
Issue type        : kbhowto

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