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Manually integrate third party CA in Active Directory
This article describes how to manually integrate a third party certificate authority (CA) in Active Directory, that is, any certificate authority other than Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS).
In the manual procedure described here, CA certificates are imported manually into Active Directory, while in an automatic procedure, certificates are pushed by LDAP or LDAPS.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply:
The CA certificates must be available. Usually it is two certificates: root CA certificate and sub-CA certificate.
Step-by-step instruction
Publish CA to AD
Log on to Domain Controller
Log on to a Domain Controller and copy the two Root CA and SubCA certificates to the desktop.
Start a command prompt with Administrator rights.
Publish root CA to Certificate Authorities container
Publish the root CA certificate into the Certificate Authorities container: