Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Neuron: Generating a CSR for Cisco ISE and Windows 2003 CA

If you have a Windows 2003 based Certificate Authority (CA) in your enterprise, you need to keep one thing in mind when generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) from Cisco ISE.  By default Cisco ISE uses SHA-256 for the CSR.  Windows 2003 only supports SHA-1.  So when you generate the request, make sure to select SHA-1.  This will save you countless headaches and hours of frustration.