Chapter 4. Certificates in Windows Server 2016

 

"Ugh, we need to use certificates to make this work."

 
 --Quote from an anonymous admin who just discovered a new piece of technology they are implementing requires the use of certificates in their organization.

If this sounds familiar, don't scrap that new project just yet! For some reason, the use of certificates seems like a daunting task to many of us, even those who have worked in IT for a lot of years. I think this is probably because there are many different options available on a certificate server, but there is not a lot of common sense or intuitiveness built into the management console for dealing with certificates. This combined with a general lack of requirement for certificates on servers ...

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