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Documentation is Wrong or Enable-WebCentralCertProvider has an issue

Open david-garcia-garcia opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

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Links

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-powershell-docs/blob/main/docset/winserver2019-ps/webadministration/Enable-WebCentralCertProvider.md

Summary

Documentation for Enable-WebCentralCertProvider states that you can pass PrivateKeyPassword argument as $null.

The truth is that both empty string or null is being ignored internally by this command (also affects Set-WebCentralCertProvider). You can now only set empty password when using the GUI as these commands do not work.

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Suggested Fix

Either state in the docs that -PrivateKeyPassword does not support $null or empty passwords, or have the server team fix the cmdlet.

david-garcia-garcia avatar Feb 12 '24 09:02 david-garcia-garcia