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Recommendations for PKI Key Lengths and Validity Periods with Configuration Manager

[Today's post is provided by Carol Bailey ] I sometimes get questions from customers about values to set for the key sizes and validity periods for the certificates required for native mode and out of band management in Configuration Manager. This has Read More...
Posted Friday, June 12, 2009 10:29 AM by Configuration Manager Team | 6 Comments
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Requesting an AMT Provisioning Certificate with Windows Server 2008 CA

[Today's post is provided by Carol Bailey ] With the December documentation update for the Configuration Manager library, we posted a new step-by-step guide for out of band management, to help customers deploy the PKI certificates with a Windows Server Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:18 PM by Configuration Manager Team | 3 Comments
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How to Renew the Site Server Signing Certificate (Microsoft Certificate Services)

[Today's post is brought to you by Carol Bailey ] Have you tried to renew the existing site server signing certificate for a native mode site, and wondered how to do this without creating a new certificate? This post provides a procedure to do this that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 11:06 AM by Configuration Manager Team | 3 Comments
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Deploying Certificates and Potential Timing Issues

[Today's post is contributed by Carol Bailey ] A number of certificate deployment issues I see are down to timing issues. Like other distributed systems with many moving parts, Microsoft Certificate Services often requires more time and patience to do Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 1:31 PM by Configuration Manager Team | 7 Comments
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Does Configuration Manager Native Mode Have to Use a Single CA Hierarchy?

[Today's post is contributed by Carol Bailey ] We've seen this question come up a few times, and the simple answer is no - as long as the communicating computers have a trust in common, and the correct certificates are used, native mode works just fine. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:51 PM by Configuration Manager Team | 5 Comments
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Can I Use a Public CA for Configuration Manager Native Mode?

[Today's post comes from Carol Bailey ] Many companies do not currently have their own public key infrastructure (PKI) with an issuing Certification Authority (CA) but still want to benefit from native mode and Internet-based client management - which Read More...
Posted Monday, January 26, 2009 12:17 PM by Configuration Manager Team | 7 Comments
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