Manually publish the certificate revocation list

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

To manually publish the certificate revocation list

Log on to the system as a Certification Authority Administrator.
Open Certification Authority.
In the console tree, click Revoked Certificates.

Where?
- Certification Authority (Computer)/CA name/Revoked Certificates
On the Action menu, point to All Tasks, and click Publish.
Select New CRL to overwrite the previously-published certificate revocation list (CRL), or select Delta CRL only to publish a current delta CRL.

Notes

To open Certification Authority, click Start, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Certification Authority.
Clients that have a cached copy of the previously-published CRL or delta CRL will continue using it until its validity period has expired, even though a new CRL has been published. Manually publishing a CRL does not affect cached copies of CRLs that are still valid; it only makes a new CRL available for systems that do not have a valid CRL.
See Related Topics for the procedure clients can use to get the most recent CRL published by the certification authority (CA) even if they still have a valid CRL cached.
By default, on the server on which the CA is installed, the CRL and delta CRL are published in:

Systemroot\system32\CertSrv\CertEnroll\
If the Active Directory directory service is available, they are also published to Active Directory.

Value	Description
crl	Specifies that a full certificate revocation list will be published.

Notes

To open a command prompt, click Start, point to All programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command prompt.
To view the complete syntax for this command, at a command prompt, type:

certutil -crl -?

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