Using Certificate Templates

Leveraging Active Directory certificate templates, an enterprise CA, along with automatic enrollment, greatly reduces the amount of overhead associated with Native mode site security.

An enterprise CA that integrates with Active Directory provides a way to automatically provision certificates to systems. This can be used for both Client Authentication certificates and Server Authentication certificates. When the server or client is started, it can be configured to automatically request the correct certificate needed to communicate with Configuration Manager over HTTPS.

Note

The Enterprise version of Windows is required to support custom certificate templates used with SCCM 2012.

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