Usefullness of Certification Authority Web Enrollment?

If a deployment has Certificate Enrollment Web Service and
Certificate Enrollment Policy Web Service installed is there still a need for
Certification Authority Web Enrollment?  This Windows Server 2012 CA design has an offline root CA, two Enterprise Subordinate CAs in a cluster, and two web servers hosting AIA/CDP/OCSP/CES and CEP behind a load balancer.  There is
also a standalone NDES server.
Thanks

Starting with Windows Server 2008, web enrollment become useless as it allows only user certificates, therefore you should avoid web enrollment installation whenever it is possible. As for CEP/CES, there is a dependency that only Windows 7+ supports it.
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  • Certification Authority Web Enrollment Install Error

    Hello
    We have moved our certification authority from "Windows Server 2008" to "Windows Server 2008 R2" according this blog entry:
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