Hi there,
Some time back, we issued client authentication certificates based on a duplicated template that is being used for Cisco AnyConnect VPN client 4.4 and wireless access. The certificate is set to expire beginning mid-June this year (about 2.5 months away) with renewal period set to 6 weeks. I've encountered a couple of situations where having two certificates of the same type in the same client certificate store caused issues, though in both cases it involved all certificates in question being valid (eg. not expired, able to access CRLs, chained properly, and so on). My questions:
1. When these certificates start to auto renew (we have GPO set up for this), do I need to be concerned about the having two valid certificates of the same type present?
2. When the older of the two certificates does expire, could the VPN app or wireless get hung up on the expired certificate and not use the new one?
3. If I do need to be concerned about duplicate valid/invalid certificates, what are my options?
4. The template in question was set to publish to AD but not automatically reenroll if a duplicate cert exists in AD for the original certificate rollout. I've read for the most part that publishing certs to AD is not really recommended. Is it okay to set the renewed certificates not to publish to AD, or are their hazards in doing that due to inconsistency?
Thanks so much and my apologies for such a long post.
Chad