Managing certificate autoenrollment
Certificate autoenrollment allows admins to configure users and computers to automatically enroll and renew certificates. This recipe shows how to configure certificate autoenrollment.
Getting ready
Certificate autoenrollment is a feature of enterprise CAs. It cannot be configured on a standalone CA.
For certificate autoenrollment to work, the CA that issues the certificate needs to run Windows Server 2003 or a newer version. Active Directory needs to run the Windows Server 2003 schema or a newer version.
To create a Group Policy Object (GPO) and manage its settings, sign in to a system with the Group Policy Management Console installed with an account that is a member of the Domain Admins group.
To configure certificates for autoenrollment, sign in to an enterprise CA with an account that is a member of the Enterprise Admins group.
How to do it…
Certificate autoenrollment is based on Group Policy. Perform these steps...