What impact does the expiration of one of the Certification Authority certificates have on the Certification Authority?

Certification authority certificates have a defined start and end date, so it is inevitable during the lifecycle of a certification authority that certification authority certificates will expire.

The following describes the impact of an expiring Certification Authority certificate on the Certification Authority.

Basic

Regardless of whether it is the current or one of the previous certification authority certificates, the certification authority service will start as usual and certificate revocation lists can also be issued.

The Certification Authority will use the Event no. 58 log.

A certificate in the chain for CA certificate 2 for ADCS Labor Issuing CA 3 has expired. A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file. 0x800b0101 (-2146762495 CERT_E_EXPIRED). 

When the current certification authority certificate expires...

Of course, if it is the current certification authority certificate, but certificates more can be requested from the certification authority.

Applicant will not be able to make a certificate request at all or cannot send them to the certification authority.

Certificate requests that continue to be submitted will be rejected, and the Certification Authority will Event no. 22 log with error code 0x800b0101 (-2146762495 CERT_E_EXPIRED).

As the certification authority expiration date approaches, there will be a spike in certificate requests (if there are still certificate templates published for issuance) as automatic certificate renewals are made when 80% of certificate validity is exceeded. This window will get shorter and shorter as the expiration date approaches (see related article "Planning of certificate validity and renewal period of end entity certificates with autoenrollment„).

Related links:

• Certificate request fails with error message "0x800b0101 (-2146762495 CERT_E_EXPIRED)".
• What impact does the revocation of a certification authority certificate have on the certification authority?
• What impact does importing a root certificate into the "Untrusted Certificates" store have on the certification authority?
• What impact does the expiry of the revocation list of one of the higher-level Certification Authorities have on the Certification Authority?
• What impact does a non-functioning revocation list of a certification authority certificate have on the certification authority?
• What impact does the revocation of the trust status of a root certification authority certificate have on the certification authority?
• Planning of certificate validity and renewal period of end entity certificates with autoenrollment