The ADCS Management Tools suite provides enterprise-grade PowerShell automation for managing certificate hygiene, lifecycle governance, repository maintenance, and privileged operations across Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and Windows certificate environments.
These tools are designed to streamline and standardize operations such as:
- Certificate Authority database cleanup and maintenance
- Expired certificate detection and removal
- Certificate repository organization and lifecycle hygiene
- PKI certificate lifecycle management and automated revocation
- CRL publication and governance reporting
- Installed certificate remediation across Windows systems
- Group Policy-based certificate cleanup and compliance enforcement
All scripts follow the same engineering standards used across Windows-SysAdmin-ProSuite, ensuring deterministic execution, structured logging, and audit-ready outputs.
- 🔐 Certificate Management — Cleanup of expired certificates and organization of shared repositories
- 📝 Comprehensive Logging — Structured
.logfiles for traceability and diagnostics - 📊 Exportable Reports — Outputs for documentation, audits, governance, and compliance
- ⚙️ Efficient PKI Automation — Eliminates repetitive and error-prone manual certificate-management tasks
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⚙️ PowerShell — Version 5.1 or later (PowerShell 7.x supported)
$PSVersionTable.PSVersion -
🔑 Administrative Privileges — Required for certificate stores, registry, disk, and AD operations
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🔧 Execution Policy — Session-scoped execution
Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope Process
| Script Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Cleanup-CertificateAuthority-Tool.ps1 | Removes obsolete certificate records from Microsoft AD CS Certificate Authority databases based on configurable retention policies. |
| Cleanup-Repository-ExpiredCertificates-Tool.ps1 | Removes expired certificate files from repository locations according to configurable retention policies. |
| Manage-PKICertificateLifecycle-Tool.ps1 | Manages Microsoft AD CS certificate lifecycle, automated revocation, CA database maintenance, CRL publication, and governance reporting. |
| Organize-CERTs-Repository.ps1 | Organizes and standardizes certificate repository contents to improve certificate storage hygiene and administration. |
| Purge-ExpiredInstalledCertificates-Tool.ps1 | Identifies and removes expired certificates installed in Windows certificate stores through controlled administrative remediation. |
| Purge-ExpiredInstalledCertificates-viaGPO.ps1 | Automates expired installed-certificate cleanup across managed Windows systems through Group Policy deployment. |
- Run scripts using Run with PowerShell or from an elevated PowerShell console
- Provide the required parameters or interact via the GUI (script-dependent)
- Review the generated outputs
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
C:\Scripts-LOGS\ |
Certificate lifecycle, cleanup, GPO remediation, and security tooling logs |
C:\Logs-TEMP\ |
General-purpose, transient, and legacy script outputs |
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\ |
CSV and exported reports for compliance, auditing, and PKI workflows |
- Certificate repository content — Source and managed certificate files used by repository maintenance operations
- PKI lifecycle reports — Certificate lifecycle, revocation, CA maintenance, and governance outputs
- Certificate cleanup logs — Operational and audit records generated during remediation workflows
- 🔁 Automate recurring certificate hygiene and lifecycle operations using Task Scheduler or GPOs
- 🗂️ Centralize PKI and certificate-management logs to a network share or SIEM pipeline
- 🧩 Customize retention policies, certificate repositories, and remediation scope to match enterprise PKI design
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