Active Directory Certificate Services

With Configuration Manager deployed for Internet-based clients, we need to have a PKI solution in place, where we need to have certificates deployed to clients and servers.

Many of the different site roles also require different certificates types, so we need certificates on both for mutual authentication.

The following are the server roles that might require a certificate in Configuration Manager depending on the configuration:

  • Management point
  • Distribution point
  • Software Update point
  • State Migration point
  • Enrollment point
  • Enrollment Proxy point
  • Application Catalog Web Service point
  • Application Catalog Website point

Active Directory Certificate Services will be a crucial component and might be used a lot in other of ...

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