How to Determine the Type of Certificate Authority (CA) you have

How to Determine the Type of Certificate Authority (CA) you have

commonly use to determine the CA type is to look in the registry with either Regedit or Regedt32 and look to the following pathHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Certsvc\Configuration\\CAType.

The CAType reg_dword value will be set to one of four numeric values, each one representing a different type of CA. Your CA types and their numeric representations include:

CAType = 0 (Enterprise Root CA)

CAType = 1 (Enterprise Subordinate CA)

CAType = 3 (Stand Alone CA)

CAType = 4 (Stand Alone Subordinate CA)