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Advanced Certification Request in Edge Chromium
It's crazy that a core Microsoft security-related application still has an ActiveX dependency in 2022
NickF101 It's not actually an ActiveX dependency - you can disable ActiveX completely in IE and this will still work. It's the authentication mechanism used by the Certificate Authority's webpage. Edge doesn't support that authentication mechanism and neither does any other browser but Internet Explorer.
The setting in Internet Explorer is in Internet Options -> Security -> Custom Level... -> User Authentication -> Logon (scroll to the very bottom of the list). It requires one of the options that allows you to authenticate through the web browser to the server so it can perform the CA operations under your AD credentials. This is not supported in anything but Internet Explorer to my knowledge, and I haven't ever found any documentation from Microsoft on how to replicate this functionality in any other way for the Certificate Authority's web interface.