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Mastering Windows Server 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Server 2016 A comprehensive and practical guide to Windows Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888908
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Windows Server 2016 2. Installing and Managing Windows Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER 3. Core Infrastructure Services 4. Certificates in Windows Server 2016 5. Networking with Windows Server 2016 6. Enabling Your Mobile Workforce 7. Hardening and Security 8. Tiny Servers 9. Redundancy in Windows Server 2016 10. Learning PowerShell 5.0 11. Application Containers and Docker 12. Virtualizing Your Datacenter with Hyper-V Index

Creating an autoenrollment policy


Our certification authority server is configured and running, and we can successfully issue certificates to the client machines. Great! Now let's pretend we have a new project on our plates, and one of the requirements for this project is that all of the computers in your network need to have a copy of this new machine certificate that we have created. Uh oh, that sounds like a lot of work.

Even though the process for requesting one of these certificates is very quick, only a handful of seconds on each workstation, if you had to do that individually on a couple thousand machines, you are talking about a serious amount of time needing to be spent on this process. And in many cases, the certificates that you issue will only be valid for one year. Does this mean I am facing an extreme amount of administrative work every single year to re-issue these certificates as they expire?

Certainly not! Let's figure out how to utilize Group Policy in order to create a...

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