Certificates

Five key configuration steps for implementing Internet-based clients in ConfigMgr 2012

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This blog post is about the key configuration steps for implementing Internet-based clients in ConfigMgr 2012. By key configuration steps, I’m talking about the configuration of the web server certificate, IIS, site systems, site system roles and client installations. To understand these steps, knowledge of certificates, IIS and ConfigMgr is required, because it’s not a step-by-step configuration guide. Prerequisites Before going through these steps, there are a few important prerequisites that should be in place: Site systems for Internet-based client management must have connectivity to the Internet and must be in an Active Directory domain. A supporting public key infrastructure (PKI) has to be in place, that can deploy and manage the certificates that the clients require and that are managed on the Internet and …

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How to install a ConfigMgr Client on a WORKGROUP computer, when the ConfigMgr Site is in Native Mode.

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To install a ConfigMgr Client on a WORKGROUP computer is always a nice battle, when the ConfigMgr Site is in Native Mode. I think I am not the only one who didn’t work that much with certificates before ConfigMgr. So to make the basics of this process for everyone a bit easier I wrote down these seven steps for implementing the correct certificates and installing the ConfigMgr Client on a WORKGROUP client. These same steps can also be used for separate forests. Step 1. Export the Root Certificate for use on the WORKGROUP computer Logon to the Certification Authority server and create a folder to contain your certificate files (eg C:\Certificates). Open a command prompt and go to the just created folder. Use the following …

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