Credentials and Certificate Management (Standard 7 Package Reference)

7/8/2014

This package is a Feature Pack in the category Security\Security Credentials. The name of the package as it appears on disk and for use with some command-line tools is WinEmb-Security-Credentials.

The Credentials and Certificate Management package includes functionality for managing certificates, credentials, and smart cards, such as the smart card subsystem, certificate management, Credential Manager, Security Service Provider, support for X.509 certificates, Windows Vault, Windows Logon, and Service Hardening.

Settings

No settings provided.

Services

• Interactive Services Detection

Dependencies

Package Dependencies

This package depends upon features provided by the following packages:

• Microsoft Management Console (System Management)
• Security Base

Group Dependencies

No group dependencies.

Optional Supporting Packages

You can select any number of packages from the following list:

• Driver Frameworks
• Group Policy Management
• Help and Support Engine
• System Management Administrative Tools

You can use the optional packages to enable the following functions:

To do this	Use these packages
Show the Biometrics Control Panel.	Driver Frameworks
Use the Autoenrollement process for certificates.	System Management Administrative Tools Group Policy Management Note: Autoenrollment is accomplished by scheduling a task in Task Scheduler. The process requires group policy to define the certificates that needs to be enrolled.
Provide hardware SmartCard support.	Microsoft Smartcard Identity Management Driver Smartcard Filter Driver USBCCID Smartcard User-mode Driver

Common Uses

Point of Service (POS) devices and thin clients typically use smart card services, certificate management, and credential management to help protect user data when communicating over a network. Devices such as ticketing kiosks and automated teller machines (ATM) might use that functionality in addition to role-based access control.

Notes

In addition to driver-class installers included in Windows Embedded Core, this package includes the Microsoft.Windows.Hardware.Devices.ClassInstaller.SMARTCARDFILTER-DriverClass class installer.