Deploying Certificates

An enterprise Certificate Authority simplifies management of certificates by providing a secure, scalable certificate provisioning process through Active Directory. This task assumes all of the Configuration Manager servers and the Enterprise Root CA server have been moved to an organizational unit (OU) called Servers, and all of the workstations have been moved to an OU called Workstations.

The Servers and Workstations OUs are child objects of an OU called Managed. The Managed OU is located in the root of the domain.

Caution

Do not move domain controllers from the default OU. Moving domain controllers out of the default Domain Controllers OU is not supported.

When an Enterprise Root CA is deployed, all domain controllers ...

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