ICertAdmin interface

The ICertAdmin interface provides administration functionality for properly authorized clients.

The ICertAdmin interface is used to perform the following tasks:

• Authorize or deny a certificate request.
• Revoke an issued certificate.
• Trigger the generation of a certificate revocation list (CRL).
• Get the current CRL for the server.
• Determine whether a certificate is valid.

When you use the ICertAdmin interface, you have write-only access to request attributes and certificate extensions, but no direct access to other request and certificate properties.

ICertAdmin is defined in Certadm.h. When you create a program, however, use Certsrv.h as the include file. Certadm.dll, on the other hand, provides the implementation of the ICertAdmin interface. The type information for this interface is also in Certadml.dll, which is shipped with the Platform Software Development Kit (SDK).

Administration tasks use DCOM. Code that calls this interface method as defined in an earlier version of Certadm.h will run on Windows-based servers as long as the client and the server are both running the same Windows operating system.

Certificate Services interfaces support both apartment-threading and free-threading models. For better throughput, free threading is recommended.

Inheritance

The ICertAdmin interface is extended by the ICertAdmin2 interface. All the methods defined by ICertAdmin are inherited by ICertAdmin2 and are documented under the newer interface.

Members

The ICertAdmin interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. ICertAdmin also has these types of members:

• Methods

Methods

The ICertAdmin interface has these methods.

Requirements

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Build date: 10/26/2012